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Did you just believe that Descartes was modeling "cognitive-process flow" because some psychologist told you so? Or is possible that Descartes was, y'know, prescribing how rationalists should approach belief, rather than how we generally do?
No, it's not possible, as one would know if one had 'just', 'y'know', looked up the citations in the papers and read what Descartes himself said in his Fourth Meditation:
Seems pretty clearly descriptive and not normative... no 'should' about it.