Theoretical - Biology of Cognition

Question 1

How can this theory be articulated?

Answer 1

Humans bring forth 
different views 
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to their understanding 
of events and experiences 
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in their lives

Question 2

Humans bring forth different views

to their understanding of events and experiences in their lives. This is based on?

Answer 2

biology and physiology
NOT
philosophy

Question 3

2 concepts

Answer 3

• Two possible avenues for explaining our world are objectivity and objectivity-in-parenthesis.
• We bring forth our realities through interacting with the world, ourselves, and others through language.

Question 4

Two possible avenues for explaining our world are objectivity and objectivity-in-parenthesis
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From a objectivist POV, how does the world look?

Answer 4

A system and its components 
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have a constancy and stability 
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that is independent of the observer that brings them forth

Question 5

Two possible avenues for explaining our world are objectivity and objectivity-in-parenthesis
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When objectivity is “placed in parenthesis”…

Answer 5

objects exist 
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but they are not independent 
of the living system 
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that brings them forth

Question 6

Two possible avenues for explaining our world are objectivity and objectivity-in-parenthesis
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When objectivity is “placed in parenthesis”objects exist but they are not independent of the living system that brings them forth.
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In terms of truth…

Answer 6

the only “truths” that exist are those brought forth by observers

Question 7

Two possible avenues for explaining our world are objectivity and objectivity-in-parenthesis
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Each person’s view is not a distortion of some presumably correct interpretation, instead…

Answer 7

one objective universe waiting to be discovered or correctly described

Question 8

Two possible avenues for explaining our world are objectivity and objectivity-in-parenthesis
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The authors propose…

Answer 8

a multiverse

Question 9

Two possible avenues for explaining our world are objectivity and objectivity-in-parenthesis
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a multiverse. say more.

Answer 9

many observer “verses” exist, each valid in their own right

Question 10

Two possible avenues for explaining our world are objectivity and objectivity-in-parenthesis
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Why do nurses need to help family members drift toward objectivity-in-parenthesis? (2)

Answer 10

to increase options and possibilities for families to cope with illness using a variety of strategies
or
to improve their well-being

Question 11

Two possible avenues for explaining our world are objectivity and objectivity-in-parenthesis
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Helping family members “resist the sin of certainty” allows them to…

Answer 11

resist the notion that there is only one true or correct way to manage health or illness, loss or disability

Question 12

We bring forth our realities through interacting with the world, ourselves, and others through language.
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Describe reality

Answer 12

it does not exist “out there” to be absorbed
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people exist in many domains of the realities that they bring forth to explain their experiences

Question 13

We bring forth our realities through interacting with the world, ourselves, and others through language.
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What can be seen as the essential quality of living?

Answer 13

the ability to bring forth personal meaning and to respond to and interact with the world and with each other, but always with reference to a set of internal coherences

Question 14

We bring forth our realities through interacting with the world, ourselves, and others through language.
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It is best to think of cognition as?

Answer 14

A continual interaction b/w what people expect to see (owing to unconscious premises and beliefs) and what they bring forth

Question 15

We bring forth our realities through interacting with the world, ourselves, and others through language.
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Reality is

Answer 15

an explanation of the world that we live in with others

Question 16

We bring forth our realities through interacting with the world, ourselves, and others through language.
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The world everyone sees is not the world, but…?

Answer 16

a world that they bring forth with others

Question 17

We bring forth our realities through interacting with the world, ourselves, and others through language.
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When nurses adopt this particular ethical stance, they find themselves

Answer 17

more curious about the world each family member brings froth and how this world influences the person’s ability or inability to cope with or manage her illness