Participants saw 216 word captions, half negative and half benign, followed in 72 trials by a corresponding picture (cued by the word "look"), in another 72 trials by generation of a mental image (cued by "imagine"), or construction of a descriptive sentence in the remaining 72 (cued by "sentence").
In Smart Change, professor Art Markman discusses how behaviors are triggered by physical and mental cues: when you engage in a behavior consistently, it becomes "mapped" to certain circumstances and environments.
In his popular writing, Kahneman, a psychologist by training, walks readers through the mental cues that help us make up our minds.
The mental cues can be summarized briefly as: 1) establishing a connection to the divine, 2) consciously relaxing body and mind, 3) visualizing healing energy penetrating the cellular target, 4) taking enjoyment in participating in the experiment, 5) maintaining a feeling of gratitude.
"I just have mental cues for myself and if other people listen, it's fine..."....
However, if one of the environmental, physical, or mental cues is more intense than usual, it could erroneously signal to your brain that you're in a novel situation requiring a lot of intentional thought.
Readers use topic sentences as mental cues for the information they will read in the rest of the paragraph, so the topic sentence usually appears at, or near the beginning of, a paragraph.
Respondents with unstable lives and cognitive difficulties respond favorably to the life-events calendar method's interactive mode of administration and use of visual and mental cues, and using the life-events calendar method to gather retrospective longitudinal data from offenders is cheaper and potentially more practical than implementing traditional panel designs.
These mental cues were used by all practitioners in all experiment.
