Rubricizing ; a term coined by Abraham Maslow. He believed that there are two major ways to preview any experience. One is to observe its unique essence, how the experience is truly different and individualistic. The second, rubricizing, is to respond to an experience as a representative of a category (rubric). Rubricizing perception is similar to the actions of a file clerk who recognizes only what is minimally necessary to place a paper under A, B, Y, and so on. When we rubricize people, we quickly scan them for certain characteristics (often subsconscionusly) and place them into one of our mental file folders. A rubricized person becomes a member of a grouping : waiter, teenager, a Johnson kid, math major, jock, married, female, southerner, sorority type, and so on. Rubrics are categories of the mind.
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