Anonymous wrote:Agree on the value of pattern recognition as a psychologist, absolutely
As a psychologist, I agree. And it may show up early...my kindergarten report card said, "She is quick to recognize pattern."
We all are scanning for pattern recognition all the time, often unconsciously. The thinking is also that (at least sometimes) when you are bothered or irritated or feel uncomfortable with someone, it is because the person is behaving as an outlier, ie. outside of the many many pattern schemes you have in your mind, conscious and unconscious. It's really interesting