Psychological impact of climate change

Abstract

When people reflect upon human decision-making processes, they often presume that logic and pragmatism govern the outcome, but this is rarely the case. To fully grasp this idea, one needs to look at the fundamental components of the information processing procedure. First, a stimulus enters the perceptual world of a human being. This hypothetical stimulus’ perceptual properties must be processed by the appropriate brain region for it to be “perceived.” During the initial stages of the operation, fundamental physical stimulus properties are processed. However, this represents only a minor component of the overall process. The most crucial step is to ascribe a meaning to the stimulus. It is at this very step that most individual variances emerge.