Ones To Remember Flashcards
Lexical hypothesis
All aspects of human personality which are or have been of importance have already become recorded in language
Empirical
Observable data
Objective data
Knowledge is verifiable
Sternbergs 3 aspects of intelligence
Analytic
Creative
Practical
Causal primacy
Assumption that traits determine behaviour
Top down processing
Perception is active and constructive.
Not just determined by the stimulus
Bottom up processing
Stimulus
Cognitive process
Response
Procedural knowledge
Knowledge HOW to do something
Declarative knowledge
Knowledge ABOUT something
Endocrine system
Major control system of the body.
Based on hormones
Reductionism
Complex phenomena can be best understood by reducing them to separate similar parts
Emergence
Properties only exist when a system is viewed in its entirety
Piaget - processes for cognitive development
Assimilation and accommodation
Lexical tradition
Using words to describe personality based attributes
Multivariate approach
Use of multivariate models of personality structure
Induction
All facts are constructed and subject to selection and censorship
Phrenology
Measurements of the human skull
Cognition
Processes of knowing - remembering and reasoning
Congruence
Self concept - how we view ourselves
Self actualisation
The basics drive of the human organism.
The drive to reach ones full potential as a human
Assimilation
Adding to existing knowledge
Accommodation
Look at things differently based on new experiences
Checkland - science is a human activity characterised by :
Reductionism
Repeatability
Refutation
Hypo seductive model
Theories - hypothesis - tested against facts.
If there is a discrepancy- theory is reformulated
Hypo deduction
Real world Confirm/disconfirm Theory Reasoning Hypothesis Experiment
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Operational definitions
Precisely worded in terms of the operations necessary to measure something
