Psychology

Automatic association is called habitual, and allows for all sorts of automated activity like walking, running, eating, driving or conversation simultaneously. However the associative processes of ordinary thinking can also become fairly automatic, when it might otherwise be volitional and creative. Whenever thunder was heard one always habitually associated God bowling in the sky.

Volitional Selection:

Much of the associational processes is automatic and is necessary as such. Volitional selection is the purposeful selection of Association other than automatic. Thinking about driving to work, one may associate automatically the usual way one always goes. Or one could volitionally select new ways to go. Creative thinking such as song or fiction writing utilizes Volitional Selection.

Interpretive Context:

Context is the organization of the memory into categories of conceptual information.

Salad is categorized as food and not clothes. When seeing or thinking about salad, one may automatically and volitionally associate related mental information such as lettuce, vegetables or fruit, dressing or croutons. If one sees or thinks of a particular salad such as Caesar Salad, a more limited and precise category is associated, such as Romaine lettuce, Worcestershire Sauce, raw or coddled egg-yolks etc. The Interpretive Context is all associative information pertaining and related to salads, or a particular salad. Volitional selection would be to create a new salad recipe or to fantasize settings in the salad might be served.

Primary Premise:

The primary premise here is that there are three all-inclusive and primary contexts for Interpretation defined as the Ego, Identities and Ipseities.

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