 This last bit about other mental goings-on is important. My disposition to fear rats is connected to all kinds of other psychological dispositions, such as a disposition to believe that rats carry diseases and that I should run away from them, a desire to not catch any diseases from rats, and so forth. In other words, the CAPS model accepts that there are clusters of interrelated mental state dispositions, and that upon being activated they cause multiple occurrent thoughts and feelings to be formed. As Mischel and Shoda write, 