steps of these two important sorts of strategies. It is worth noticing, as Fig.
8.2 shows, that in every case both processing strategies (Y and X) are initiated
by, and serve, past or present affective goals (directly, or indirectly via the ex-
ecutive–cognitive goals they generate). Thus internalization of cognitive
schemes and structures, which often is mediated by X strategies, initially is
primed by, and at the service of, affective goals. Without affective goals, the
organismic choice of suitable cognitive schemes would be hard to achieve.
Further, whenever a subject enters a situation where a strategy X and one
(or more) strategy Y are simultaneously elicited and in conflict, because the
more peremptory strategy Y leads to unwelcome results, the situation in
question will qualify as amisleading situation,because the more-or-less auto-
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FIG. 8.2. Flow chart of the fundamental steps involved in high-cognitive (X-
strategy) and low-cognitive (Y-strategy) processing. Misleading situations are
ones in which X-strategies and Y-strategies are in conflict.