Cognitive Complexity

Cognitive behavioral psychology pertains to how someone interprets feelings and how he or she reacts to this interpretation. Cognition indicates how one thinks and this interacts with emotion and behavior. In other words, an activating event takes place and provokes an assumption which leads to resulting consequences that are normally negative. In the movie Inside Out, Riley leads a happy life in Minnesota which is turned upside-down when her family moves to San Francisco. The stress of the move causes a major disruption in Riley’s life and emotions. Using cognitive behavioral psychology, Riley’s thoughts can be analyzed through the ABC technique; this technique begins with A (activating event), then B (belief), which results in C (consequence). Under Riley’s circumstances, the stress she experiences causes her beliefs to be mostly negative, which therefore leads to poor consequences.

In “A Rounded Version: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences”, Howard Gardner illustrates how there are a variety of intelligences. Gardner starts off with an example how IQ tests may predict achievement in school but may not predict achievement in life. After finding out certain parts of the brain are responsible for certain functions, such as “Broca’s Area” which is responsible for sentence production, Gardner proposes the existence of multiple intelligences. Multiple studies later led him to propose seven distinct intelligences; Musical, bodily-kinesthetic, logical-mathematical, linguistic, spatial, interpersonal, and intrapersonal. Each intelligence has certain classifications. According to Gardner’s classifications, I realized my intelligences are bodily-kinesthetic, logical-mathematical, and intrapersonal.

According to Butts and Rich (2015), complexity science is a knowledge founded on physics and mathematics that operates using basic principles to elucidate the connection between variables. Butts and Rich add that complexity science is a developing field of interest that is catching the attention of scholars from different disciplines because it provides a different viewpoint on various phenomena of interest. According to Sturmberg and Martin (2009), although there has been an ongoing push for application of complexity science in health care, this is not an attempt to eradicate the reductionistic view. Complexity science only aims to fabricate a new and more comprehensive understanding of the world by unifying both the holistic and reductionist viewpoint (Sturmberg & Martin, 2009).

In the prior chapter, I established both the multiplicity and malleability of identity and its role in conflict transformation. I will now explore the literature on complexity science and systems thinking. More specifically, I investigate the self as a complex adaptive system to support the transformation of self, society, and conflict. First I will look at complexity science and systems thinking to bring some clarity and definition to the inquiry, then I will explore the sciences that attribute the self as a system, and furthermore, as a complex adaptive system in order to illuminate the various aspects of self that contribute to transformative processes.

Complexity surrounding the decisions we make personally and professionally is an understatement. I agree, it is complex, but intensely interesting to me. Understanding why people make certain decisions can be perplexing. Looking into the past for direction can be insightful to determine why we make the decisions we do or why our bosses make the decisions they do. Aristotle believed that ethics is about virtue, and virtue starts with character. Each of us has been shaped by our culture, family, religion, and life experiences. Being able to reflect on our experiences, understanding our moral philosophies, and trusting our intuition will allow us to make good judgments in our personal and professional lives. We are learning as we are living

Since the dawn of time, mankind has always desired omniscience and the power it brings. Hinduism and all three Abrahamic religions believe that there is an omniscient creator who wields unlimited power because of their ability to know everything. If a single person could also attain this level of enlightenment, why not the privileges and divine abilities that come with it? That is the main principle in the movie Limitless. It has long been said that knowledge is power, and the protagonist of the film quickly discovers the truth in this. After taking a shady, experimental drug called NZT from a brother-in-law he has not seen in years, Eddy Morra finds that there is nothing that his brain cannot calculate while under the drugs effects. Eddy is

interact with the world around them. Albert Ellis and Aaron Beck are the two frontrunners in

Complexity: The Exit Strategy format is complex in its very nature, and there were multiple key decision factors. We were placed in a small room and given an end goal of turning off a reactor that would blow up if we were unable to disarm it. To get to that end goal, however, we needed to follow a series of steps or clues that would ultimately lead to the disarmament. The clues built off one another and there was no way to achieve the ultimate goal without solving all of the stages of the problem first. For example, at the very beginning of our one hour time allotment, one team member picked up on a clue given to us by the administrator that led us into a silver suitcase. The suitcase held a key that went to a toolbox. In turn, that toolbox

Out of the different perspectives in psychology, I believe that Biological and Cognitive perspectives are the most useful when studying human behavior. In order to understand a person’s actions and conduct, one must be able to observe and understand human behavior. Psychologist with a biological perspective seek to understand the links between the brain, hormones, heredity, evolution, and also behavior and mental process. The biological perspective focuses on the nervous system and the brain, this is more useful when studying human behavior because there is already information on the nervous system and the brain, therefore that focus would give more promising results and is a perspective that more people would understand because of the information

Although, I think I am able to keep my cool under certain situations I do happen to have some anger. I think this trait developed in many ways. According to the Cognitive Approach it, “explains anger to be because of fault reasoning and a reliance on irrational beliefs” (Burger, 2015, p. 416). I believe that my anger is related to relying on a group of irrational beliefs. I have the tendency to believe that I must be competent, adequate and achieve in all important respects. I tend to believe that when a situation arrives it triggers these irrational beliefs and the emotional consequence of being anger comes about. This irrational way of thinking brings a rage of anger and frustration because I believe that I must meet those irrational beliefs. On the other

On the other hand, convergent thinking means the ability to give the right answer to questions that are known to be standard and doesn't require creativeness. An example would be the test that you take for the school that is multiple choice. You get one answer that is right and there is no need for you to think creatively. From my experience, I can say taking the test at Belhaven is a part of the divergent thinking process because unlike standardized test they require us to think creatively. We all get the same questions but there is no one answer to the question. It isn’t really a right or wrong answer just as long as it relates to the topic and you can back up your answer. While that can be the case in multiple choice test where you can

Prior to the early 1970s the prominent idea of how memories were formed and retrieved revolved around the idea of processing memory into specific stores (Francis & Neath, 2014). These memory stores were identified as sensory memory, short-term memory, and long-term memory. In contrast to this idea, two researchers named Fergus Craik and Robert Lockhart proposed an idea linking the type of encoding to retrieval (Goldstein, 2015). This idea is known as the levels of processing theory. According to this theory, memory depends on the depth of processing that a given item is received by an individual (Goldstein, 2015). Craik and Lockhart stressed four points in supporting their theory. First, they argued that memory was the result of a series of analyses, each level of the series forming a deeper level of processing than the preceding level (Francis & Neath, 2014). The shallow levels of processing were believed to hold less importance and are defined as giving little attention to meaning of an item. Examples of which include focusing on how a word sounds or memorizing a phone number by repeating it over and over again (Francis & Neath, 2014) (Goldstein, 2015). The deeper levels processing involve paying close attention to the meaning of an item and relating that meaning to something else, an example of which would be focusing on the meaning of a word rather than just how the word sounds (Francis & Neath, 2014) (Goldstein, 2015). The second point Craik and Lockhart

To start of my college journey at Loras we went to a low ropes course as part of Launch into Loras weekend. It wasn’t an ordinary ropes course because it had teachable moments as part of our learning experience. It was time to get out of our comfort zones and allow ourselves to interact with others. This was either going to make us one or break us into awkward groups. Another part of our task was that we needed to take mental notes on how our mindset changed throughout the course because we would later on reference it to the book the Blindspot. In relation to the book the Blindspot the ropes course taught us that our mind does indeed think with the air of categories and the categories are basis for normal prejudgment.

Power of collaboration:A Summary of Clay Shirky's TED Talk "How Cognitive Surplus will Change the World"

Information processing theories emphasizes on the way people focus on environmental events, translate information to be learned and find a way to relate the information to the knowledge in the short term memory and then store the knowledge in the long term memory; to retrieve it when need be. The way we process information such as problem solving and critical thinking with such efficiency, it is seen that we perform better than highly sophisticated machines. Even thou the human mind is so incredibly remarkable, researchers didn’t develop systematic models of memory, cognition, and thinking until the 20th century. In the 1950s, the only pronounced research model was the information processing model (IPM).