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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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