UTS: Chapter 2 Flashcards
Cognitive
concious intellectual activity
Scientific study of how people behave, think and feel.
Psychology
Piaget Cognitive Theory
Schemas, Adaptation, Stages of Cognitive Development
Building block of knowledge
Schemas
Learning process to meet situational demands
Adaptation
Increasing sophistication of the child’s thought process
Stages of Cognitive Development
Application of previous concepts to new concepts
Assimilation
Acquiring completely new knowledge or when existing ideas are challenged
Accommodation
4 stages of cognitive development
Sensorimotor, pre-operational- concrete operations, formal operation
0-2; learns by looking, touching, and sucking
Sensorimotor
2-7; Uses language and symbol
Pre-operational
7-11; Mature understanding of cause-and-effect
Concrete operations
12+; Demonstrates abstract thinking
Formal Operations
The Me-Self and I-self
- The principles of Psychology
William James
Pure ego and subjective
I-Self
Object and describable
Me-Self
Three dimensions of me-self
Material
Social
Spiritual
Pioneered Humanistic Psychology
Carl Ransom Rogers
Innate drive towards self-actualization and realizing their capabilities and creativity
Humanistic Psychology
Succeed at highest possible capacity
actualizing tendency
Result of constant interaction with environment
Self-concept
Concept of the best me; person you would like to be
Ideal self
Influences of Ideal Self
Notions influenced by parents
What you admire in others
Socially acceptable
Your best interest
The person you actually are
Real Self
Greater sense of self-worth
Congruence
Leads to maladjustment
Incongruence
“A man has many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him and carries his image in their head”
William James
“The concept of self loses its meaning if a person has multiple selves…”
“Unity is the defining feature of self-hood”
Roy Baumeister
Central topic for classical modern philosophers like Descartes, Kant and James
Unity of consciousness
not made up of parts; thus, it cannot be a physical substance
Mind
Unified consciousness and not composed of mere fragments
Being
Proposed the personality trait theory (every person possesses inherent traits)
Gordon Allport
Essential characteristic that never ever changes which shapes who you are in any given day
Trait
Developed transactional analysis model
Eric Berne
- Every person has 3 ego states
- People communicate assuming roles of any ego states
Transactional analysis model
3 Ego states
Parent
Adult
Child
Voice of authority; could be comforting or controlling
Parent
Rational; speaks reasonably for themselves
Adult
Three ego child states:
Natural, little professor, and adaptive
Loves to play
Natural
Curious child
Little professor
Reacts to the world
Adaptive
Proposed the domains of self
Gregg Henriques
Theater of consciousness and tied to memories
Experiential Self
Narrator or interpreter
Private self-conscious