Life Changing Mindset

In the 1970s "power of positive thinking" world it was called "reticular activation", what is it called now?

I am trying to find current research in the cognitive sciences or popular psychology relating to being predisposed to see information and objects. An example is when you buy a new car you start seeing many of these cars on the road (they had been there before, but the person is now more aware).

I know this was called was called the "reticular activation system" in the 1970s in the popular psychology world around the "power of positive thinking" seminars. I have been looking for more recent informaiton and research and I know the terminology has changed. But I do not know what it changed to.

Public Comments

1. I think the terminology is very scientific and I don't think it has changed much. But the way in which one interprets the realm of reality and awareness has become less of a science and more of a philosophy. It is an example of how awareness can change your reality at many levels. The power to think positive, is directly related to
how you see reality. Check into Landmark Education for the "reticular activation theory" of the 21st century.

2. Power of positive thinking- does not seem to have undergone any change.