| Affective | Cognitive | Sensorimotor | |
| Spiritual Self | I feel that architects and planners should have a well-rounded
education involving all factors. I believe in the sincerity of people's words unless later proven wrong. I value the uses of integration of theories and my related experiences of these theories. | The basis that architects and planners are made aware of these factors
during their practice and education The author would not lie about the information included in Goffman's book. Taking the perspective of a well-rounded idea includes instances where adjusted variables will not yield expected results. | The assumption that architects and planners do have an intellectual
understanding of the psychology of environment. I assumed that the material in the book would be relevant, enlightening, and interesting, like it sounded in the book. The assumption that the people in the area are not rebeling against this unconscious practice of territorality. |
| Reflective Self | Trying to be critical of what I read, instead of blindly accepting
everything as truth. I am trying to get as broad an understanding as possible to aid in good design (my interest in school). I prefer keeping my same seat because of an established comfort level I feel there. | The client is the one who makes final decisions--he does not
necessarily know about the importance of these psychological
factors. Studies of social psychology obviously have great influence in architecture, and should be read. I tried sitting in another area and when the person who usually sat there came in he looked surprised ad a little annoyed. | My reason is that many other factors must also be considered, one of
which is cost and time restraints. After reading this book I can gain insights better planning and design in architecture. I understand the reason I sit in the same place is that I would be invading someone else's established seat if I sat somewhere else. |
| Automatic Self | My impulses to defend what I see as not the entire truth. I have known these ideas existed through my personal sensitivity. I see that people keep relatively same seats although we're not assigned them. | Reading: a weakness of architects is "to regard space as a purely
visual construct. Goffman's ideas are of considerable interest to me. Thinking about how people "establish a form of tenure" | "I cannot agree wholeheartedly with this" "I'd like to read this book" "I always sit in the middle of the room by the windows in Dr. Jame's class." |
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