In a basic sense, an expectation is a rule of which a person will follow when it involves something other than their own minds. This rule defines how something should or shouldn't be. From extension of this, expectations are crucial to a person's mind and how it works in all contexts - they determine what a person can perceive as real or fake, right or wrong, good or bad. Expectations are a format of which people can apply their information in actual situations, and predict how things should be in application. Essentially, expectations are guidelines for information to be applied. A good example is gold. There are some people that expect gold to be hard like "all" metals, yet it's actually a soft metal when unrefined. People expect it to be tough all the time however, until they are proven wrong. When that expectation is proven wrong, it is discarded and replaced with new information and a new expectation pertaining to that information.

Simple examples can be how policemen are expected to hold up the law, and children are expected to listen to their parents. However, expectations can also fool the perceiver by being incorrect. Policemen uphold the law and are seen as good, and lawyers are also crucial in the law. The link is made between the two, and the expectation that lawyers are morally good is established. Lawyers however are actually (by role of their job, without their personal views taken into account) morally neutral, working for whoever pays. This expectation can be betrayed, and lead to a new one as it is replaced.

As the example showed, an attempt to make a connection between two law-related jobs is made and from such a link, one is expected to be morally good (from a job aspect) like the other. Expectations are a key factor in what one person considers to be correct or incorrect when considering what's logical in things. Objects can be compared and once compared, a result comes along - comparing two people to define what's normal, or what moral standing something has by comparing it to an already established entity with the information already attached. This comparison of individuals as well as objects and/or other things allows for an expectation to then arise, and be compared to the subject of the comparison.