Option Awareness and the Psychology of What We Consider

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Option Awareness and the Psychology of What We Consider
One of the human aspects influencing their choices and behaviors is their automatic assumptions and reflections upon facing a specific situation. Perceptions can be formed from past experiences or through the recurrence of an activity, which may create a lasting assumption on the outcome of the action. Such assumptions lead to premeditation and prejudice against the available options or alternatives for the course of action taken as the individual lacks an actual moment of choice (Shah, pg 426). A majority of the people don’t often think back to the alternatives at their disposal and thus end up constricting themselves to the automaticity and reflections of their common assumptions from their experiences. However, reducing the influence of the restrictive aspect and embracing relative thinking on the available assumptions turns out to be a more cost-effective endea...