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Cognitive Complexity
Definition of Cognitive Complexity:
1.
a more versatile system for perceiving the cognitivelycomplex
person.
2.how the individual structures his world.
Components of Cognitive Complexity:
Ordination - related to the ability to hierarchically
prioritize
making.
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systems models and ideas (Goertzel, 1997). Individual
variablescontribute to the fragmentation of psychology; that is,
there is no
unifying paradigm for psychology as a whole. Goertzel posits
thatcomplexity science has the potential to help psychology become
aunified theory of the mind.
more relevant to personality. Loevingier introduces some
caveatsto understanding cognitive complexity. These include:
1)Cognitive complexity is not the same thing as IQ. The
Loevinger
behavior and places it in a hierarchy of cognitive styles,
whereasIQ is an approximation based on an ideal-type model.
2)Complexity is not synonymous with confusion, just as
simplicity
does not mean elegance. The ability to deal with a wide variety
ofvariables is complexity, and simplicity is that very inability.
3)
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the internal representation of the self, and thus is active in
almostany activity we engage ourselves in. It is therefore presumed
to bemore elaborate than other mental representations. Social
psychological research has shown that we form significantly
moreintricate views and judgments of our own emotions and
behaviorsthan we do of the behaviors and emotions of others.
Features of
experience and what our behavioral or emotional response is.
Thissort of cognitive mediation has been found in the case of
self-esteem. ( Rafaeli-Mor, 1997).
The complexity here is self-complexity. The definition has
beenmuch debated, but there are two aspects of the definition that
areshared among all. They all identify self-complexity as
consistingof two components: variety of roles and an overlap
between roles
( Rafaeli-Mor, 1997). All accounts also share, that at the root
ofself-complexity is the spreading of activation. The author
here,
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evolve over time; that is, they do not remain constant. They
adaptto their environment. Their environment consists of other
external world. The attractors must have an ability
for"pseudorandom" variation if they are to adapt to the
environment.
each other alive. They utilize different networking principles,
for
could easily be articulated in every day language. In its
holism
however, is a scientifically rigorous way of exploring this kind
of
complex, self-organizing world, which intuitively, the human
racehas known all along ( Goertzel, 1997 ).
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