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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 09:30:06 PST
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- [From Rick Marken (921116.900)]
-
- Martin Taylor (921113 17:10) --
-
- >Rick Marken wants a recap of the Vallacher and Wegner paper on "What do people
- >think they are doing." Here are the relevant postings from Mark Olsen, Rick,
- >and me.
-
- Thanks.
-
- The article seems to be about where people direct their consciousness
- after performing control activity.
-
- Mark says:
-
- > The relationship between attention and location of error in the hierarchy
- >is evident here and they point this out.
-
- Martin says:
-
- >A gross simplification of their claim is that if the actions that allow high-
- >level control are easy, then what subjects see themselves as doing is what
- >we would call satisfying the high-level reference.
-
- This is all very nice but the Vallacher/Wegner study is not really relevant
- to what I had in mind when coining PCT slogan # 1: "You can't tell what a
- person is doing by just looking at what they are doing". The slogan refers
- to the fact that an observer sees only observable aspects (sometimes
- relavant actions, sometimes irrelevant side effects) of the process by
- which a person controls their own perceptual experience (the behavior of
- these perceptions being what we mean by "doing" in PCT). It seems to me
- that Vallacher/Wegner assume that they already know what a person is doing
- and are interested in how these doings are described.
-
- Ed Ford (921114:1115)
-
- >Any time I deal with anyone, whether in private practice or elsewhere,
- >What I was explaining in Section B was the process, the standards
- >to be considered and incorporated when teaching others how to obey
- >rules or helping them learn how to function effectively in an
- >environment where rules exist.
-
- I just don't get it, Ed. What does "teaching standards" have to do with
- a PCT based view of human nature? What I get from PCT is the idea that
- nothing could be less important -- the actual substance of a persons
- references for relationships, programs, categories, principles, "standards",
- etc matters only in terms of how these satisfy higher level goals. The
- system should just be error free -- and this happens by having working
- (conflict free) control systems. Of course, such systems will be setting
- the "right" references for perceptions like your "standards", but they
- are right from the perspective of the control systems (they combine
- appropriately with prevailing circumstances to achieve the higher level
- goals. What is at any time a "right" setting for a particular standard
- from the point of view of the control system may very well appear to be
- a wrong setting from the point of view of someone who "knows the right
- standards". I know that the people you are dealing with have interfered
- seriously with other people in their efforts to achieve their goals. So,
- obviously, your goal is teach them to act without hurting others -- ie.
- "follow the rules". I think this is great -- but you should be clear that
- this focuses your treatment strategy on getting a person to act in ways
- that are better FOR YOU -- and, incidentally, for the person him/herself.
-
- Avery Andrews (161128.1028)
-
- >Gotta be quick, but I think I see a problem here. You seem to be
- >assuming that first the words get connected with imagined perceptions, then
- >the imagined perceptions with actual ones, whereupon there is a
- >sort of `negotiation' process whereby the imagined perceptions can
- >be altered to a certain extent if they don't fit the actual ones.
-
- When we hear speech (in a language we understand) we (I anyway) hear the
- meanings (among other things) which are imagined perceptions -- not always
- visual. The "check out" doesn't always happen -- what ususally happens
- (I think) is an attempt to perceive that the person you are talking
- to is understanding (imagining) what you are imagining (and trying to
- communicate with words).
-
- Best regards
-
- Rick
-
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