conception

Examples of conception in the following topics:

• New Concept

• Understanding Concepts

  • Framing and categorization help us interpret, understand, and utilize concepts through accessible context and organization.
  • In order for the process of thought to be effective, we must be able to make sense of and understand concepts.
  • Miscategorization can be a logical fallacy in which diverse and dissimilar objects, concepts, entities, classes, etc. are grouped together based upon illogical common denominators, or common denominators that virtually any concept, object, or entity have in common.
  • A concept is an understanding of a subject or object retained in the mind from experience, reasoning, or imagination.
  • Our constant attempt to categorize concepts in the world around us can lead us to stereotype or judge people, concept, and ideas in order to make them "fit" into a certain category in our mind.

• Applications of Psychological Theories to the Life of a Student

  • By understanding these concepts, students are better able to understand and capitalize on how they acquire knowledge in school.
  • All of these processes work together to help you develop prior knowledge and integrate new concepts.
  • Constructivism is the concept of constructing new ideas based on previous knowledge.
  • Visual learners will highlight important passages in books or draw pictures/diagrams of ideas to help better understand the concepts.
  • Role-plays, experiments, and hands-on activities are great ways for kinesthetic learners to understand and remember concepts.

• Rogers' Humanistic Theory of Personality

  • Carl Rogers' humanistic personality theory emphasizes the importance of the self-actualizing tendency in forming a self-concept.
  • As a result of their interactions with the environment and others, an individual forms a structure of the self or self-concept—an organized, fluid, conceptual pattern of concepts and values related to the self.
  • If they have a negative self-concept, they may feel unhappy with who they are.
  • In the development of the self-concept, Rogers elevated the importance of unconditional positive regard, or unconditional love.
  • These people would allow personality and self-concept to emanate from experience.

• Developmental Psychology

  • Developmental psychologists study the physical, cognitive, and psychosocial development of humans from conception through adulthood.
  • Developmental psychologists study how humans change and grow from conception through childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and death.
  • The concept of continuous development can be visualized as a smooth slope of progression, whereas discontinuous development sees growth in more discrete stages.

• Socioemotional Development in Adolescence

  • Three general approaches to understanding identity development include self-concept, sense of identity, and self-esteem.
  • The recognition of inconsistencies in the self-concept is a common source of distress during these years; however, this distress may benefit adolescents by encouraging further development and refinement of their self-concept.
  • Unlike the conflicting aspects of self-concept, identity represents a coherent sense of self that is stable across circumstances and includes past experiences and future goals.
  • Self-esteem consists of one's thoughts and feelings about one's self-concept and identity.

• Evaluating the Psychodynamic Approach to Personality

  • For example, Freud's concept of the Oedipus conflict, in which a son sees his father as competition for the affections of his mother, was thought to produce significant neurosis if not addressed in childhood.
  • A significant number of feminists have been highly critical of many of Freud's concepts, arguing that the assumptions and approaches of psychoanalytic theory are profoundly patriarchal (male-dominated), anti-feminist, and misogynistic (anti-woman).
  • Feminist Betty Friedan referred to Freud's concept of penis envy as a purely social bias typical of the Victorian era, and showed how the concept played a key role in discrediting alternative notions of femininity in the early to mid twentieth century.

• Self-Knowledge and Evaluating the Personality Perspective

  • An example of an internal factor is the concept of traits, or distinguishing qualities or characteristics of a person.
  • Three basic areas that are examined to address these research goals are traits, self-concept/self-knowledge, and situational influences.
  • Some researchers use notions such as self-concept, the looking-glass self, and the ideal self to understand individual ideas of self-knowledge.
  • Self-concept is the idea a person has of himself or herself.

• Psychology and the Scientific Method

  • Two key concepts in the scientific approach are theory and hypothesis.
  • Critical thinking also helps to identify prejudices (as well as eliminate or minimize them), and it helps people to see and change any bias they may have about a particular concept.
  • Psychology seeks to examine subjective and hard-to-measure concepts, such as emotions, and because of this is often considered a "soft" science (as opposed to the "hard" sciences of chemistry and physics).
  • Because of this, critical thinking and the use of the scientific method is especially important in psychology because it helps to minimize prejudice, bias, and other cognitive errors that often come with the examination of such subjective concepts.

• Classification and Categorization

  • Therefore, our minds develop "concepts," or mental representations of categories of objects.
  • In this approach, concepts are generated by first formulating their conceptual descriptions and then classifying the entities according to the descriptions.
  • Conceptual clustering is closely related to fuzzy-set theory, in which objects may belong to one or more concepts, in varying degrees of fitness.
  • The concept of "necessary and sufficient conditions" usually doesn't work in the messy boundaries of the natural world.