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Formation of Pratixas and its relationship with Anticipations



Pratixas are formed when we are exposed to an event or situation.  We are aware, but not conscious, of its existence. There is no need of any effort to generate pratixas.  Rather, it is effortful and impossible to inhibit its formation. After the formation, Pratixas will become ever-time ready references for us to anticipate on any event we are exposed to. The continuum of pratixas will act as direct reference points of most of the cognitive outputs [where anticipations have a role] such as decision making, planning, imagining, criticizing, predicting, and speculating and so on. The behaviour we show, and the actions we do, have strong relationships with pratixas.
While anticipating, we will make ‘activated pratixas’ our reference points.  Activation occurs due to certain environmental cues.  For instance, pratixas will be activated in the skilled athletes by observing the body cues of the opponents, which will further help the skilled athletes to anticipate the outcomes earlier in an action sequence.  The anticipations can be in the form of prediction, hypothesis, and speculations.  Consequent action or behaviour will be psychologically channelized and may be preceded with a design or plan, which Kelly (1991) called as personal constructs.  The action or behaviour is an experiment, in Kelly’s view, through which the individual validates the anticipated.  Through validating the anticipation, the individual is also validating the pratixas.  If the behaviour based on the anticipations from the pratixas at the same position in the continuum gain acceptance repeatedly, the other pratixas associated with the event will be deactivated.  Activated pratixas and anticipations will be realized as same entities thereafter.
Reference:
Kelly, G. A. (1991). The psychology of personal constructs. London: Routledge.

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