Beliefs and information processing

Question 1

Beliefs

Answer 1

instrumental in how we perceive and attach meaning to information from within ourselves and from the external environment

Question 2

Beliefs act as

Answer 2

• filters

- to process information and events that we experience

Question 3

Beliefs are basic to

Answer 3

• What we choose to perceive

- see, hear, feel, smell

Question 4

Beliefs are basic to how we

Answer 4

• appraise
• interpret
• give meaning to situation we encounter

Question 5

How we feel and act is determined by

Answer 5

how we chose to perceive and construe situations and events