Visual imagery, or seeing with the mind’s eye, contributes to essential cognitive processes such as episodic memory, future event prospection, visual working memory, and dreaming.
A creative visualization is a mental tool that draws from the subconscious mind to help complete a task.
THE POWER OF VISUALIZATION.
Consciousness is simply the awareness or sentience of internal and external existence. Levels of mental imagery and cognition vary from person to person. Images of the mind can be memories of earlier visual experiences or syntheses produced by the imagination. Mental imagery (seeing in the mind’s eye) is a quasi-perceptual experience without external stimuli.
The human mind processes abstractions, which mirror the extensive network of occipital, parietal, and frontal areas are involved when imagining, with recent studies of structures of the physical world. We have an overwhelming preference for depicting things with our minds, and abstraction dims the perceived sense, even within the same picture.
We perceive people as more accurate and higher in both Agency (ability to do) and Experience (ability to feel) than we are looking at them in a photograph. Mind perceptions underpin moral judgments, and mental perception and pictorial abstraction interact. Some mental attributes do not survive projection into pictures, and our mind perceives images of people on different levels of abstractions.
We picture mental imagery in our minds as a visual representation without environmental input.
HOW EXPECTATIONS INFLUENCE PERCEPTIONS
Your agency is your independent capability or ability to act on your own will. Your expectations drove your perceived self-efficacy for goal attainment and the readjustment of your personal goals.
Self-efficacy is not a personality trait; it is a situation-specific construct.
Confidence is having a firm belief (positive or negative). Self-efficacy has the robust and optimistic view that you have the capacity and the skills to achieve your goals.
The four core tenets of human agency are intentionality, forethought, self-reactiveness (self-regulation), and self-reflectiveness (self-efficacy).
