|
fireworks_god
Sexy.Butt.McDanger



Registered: 03/12/02
Posts: 24,855
Loc: Pandurn
Last seen: 1 year, 1 month
|
A View On Cognitive Psychology...
#14514925 - 05/26/11 12:05 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
|
|
The following is something I wrote that kind of highlights some of the concepts of cognitive psychology in a more synthesized way. Any thoughts or critiques are more than welcome. 
As human beings, we have a conscious experience of life, and, for a number of reasons, the quality of this experience is often less than what it could be. There are many things in the world which play a role in creating stress and unenjoyable experiences. There are also a lot of ways we could approach a situation that would minimize the experience of stress, make things more enjoyable for us, and help us, by increasing our abilities to make things happen in our favor, ways which we are capable of being, with a little work.
Everyday, we're taking in all kinds of information about life through our senses. This is where our mind comes into the picture. All of this information is used by the mind, and this happens through something known as cognitive processing. Things like memory, emotions, thinking, and decision-making all make up a part of this, being cognitive processes. The way these processes work give us a lot of insight into how our experience of life happens. This, in turn, gives us more opportunities for resolving problems that we do not wish to have anymore, and it also gives us opportunities for bettering our life and our experience of it.
Our self image influences greatly the way we experience life, and it provides us a lot of opportunity for improving ourselves. This is because we can play an active role in forming and developing our self image, through focusing on our cognitive processes and learning how to use them more consciously. Our self image includes our memories and our feelings, it includes our thoughts about who we are and what things mean for us, and it also includes our motivations. With all of this, we understand what is happening in our life and decide how to act.
The way we interact with other people around us and the world as a whole shapes the way we experience life further. Different people have different experiences, different interests, different ways of understanding, different skills and capabilities, different problems. The fact that so many differences can exist between people means that it's likely for conflicts to occur and for stress to be created. This doesn't necessarily imply an actual conflict or stressful moment between people, as it is often a matter of other people providing examples for us regarding how to think, feel, and act which we then adopt. Often, we can almost automatically develop ways of thinking, feeling, and acting from others that do not work well for ourselves. They might not have even worked well for the people we got them from. As individuals, we also have our own competing interests, multiple thoughts and feelings about the same thing, and our own lacks of understanding. Sometimes we might find ourselves in troublesome situations that need worked out, challenges and difficulties, or sometimes we might become accustomed to a certain way of being that might be keeping us from bettering aspects of our life and ourselves.
New experiences can offer us all sorts of opportunities to grow, to develop our abilities to make decisions in our life, and to enhance our experience of life. Interacting with other people naturally provokes responses from ourselves that wouldn't have happened without being around those people, and so it happens that other people bring out different aspects and qualities of ourselves, especially when we are consciously seeking to better ourselves and our experience. Learning about cognitive psychotherapy and finding out more about the services that it offers and how they might be of assistance to you could lead to the decision to use these services, as a way of forming new perspectives on one's self image and one's cognitive processes and as a way of orientating oneself more fully towards desired change and desired experience.
--------------------
If I should die this very moment I wouldn't fear For I've never known completeness Like being here Wrapped in the warmth of you Loving every breath of you
|
nglsnv
Becoming



Registered: 08/31/10
Posts: 782
|
Re: A View On Cognitive Psychology... [Re: fireworks_god]
#14514976 - 05/26/11 12:15 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
|
|
Quote:
fireworks_god said: Everyday, we're taking in all kinds of information about life through our senses. This is where our mind comes into the picture. All of this information is used by the mind, and this happens through something known as cognitive processing. Things like memory, emotions, thinking, and decision-making all make up a part of this, being cognitive processes. The way these processes work give us a lot of insight into how our experience of life happens. This, in turn, gives us more opportunities for resolving problems that we do not wish to have anymore, and it also gives us opportunities for bettering our life and our experience of it.
my question is, what is the function of the mind? compared to something like the heart, whose job is to provide sufficient amounts of blood and oxygen to the body, what would the mind's optimum function be? to me, to say that the mind takes information to use it to experience the world seems incomplete. are there efficient minds and defective minds? we seem to have examples of defective minds, but what about the efficient ones? how do they work? is it just for survival? what does that mean?
|
Icelander
The Minstrel in the Gallery



Registered: 03/15/05
Posts: 95,368
Loc: underbelly
|
Re: A View On Cognitive Psychology... [Re: fireworks_god]
#14515076 - 05/26/11 12:35 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
|
|
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
|
fireworks_god
Sexy.Butt.McDanger



Registered: 03/12/02
Posts: 24,855
Loc: Pandurn
Last seen: 1 year, 1 month
|
Re: A View On Cognitive Psychology... [Re: nglsnv]
#14515194 - 05/26/11 12:57 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
|
|
Quote:
Professor Tibbs said: what would the mind's optimum function be? to me, to say that the mind takes information to use it to experience the world seems incomplete.
I don't consider it to be incomplete, in considering that there are motivational factors which dictate the processing of this information, guide this processing, and follow through with it to arrive at a given output, a decision as to how to manifest.
Quote:
are there efficient minds and defective minds?
I should think so, having in mind the tasks that the mind is considered to be directed to fulfill and their ability to accomplish that. It's trickier to evaluate because there can be conflicting tasks, conflicting motivations for which to act.
Quote:
but what about the efficient ones? how do they work? is it just for survival? what does that mean?
They function as per the manners in which they are intended to function. Again, efficiency is judged respective to purpose.
--------------------
If I should die this very moment I wouldn't fear For I've never known completeness Like being here Wrapped in the warmth of you Loving every breath of you
|
nglsnv
Becoming



Registered: 08/31/10
Posts: 782
|
Re: A View On Cognitive Psychology... [Re: fireworks_god]
#14515703 - 05/26/11 02:38 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
|
|
interesting, thanks for the response. that question has been on my mind for a while but it appears i might just be over-thinking things a bit.
|
redgreenvines
irregular verb


Registered: 04/08/04
Posts: 37,853
|
Re: A View On Cognitive Psychology... [Re: nglsnv]
#14516247 - 05/26/11 04:24 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
|
|
"something known as cognitive processing"
that's merely a platitude or a placeholder for the real thing we want to know about - anything hinged to that falls to dust or stands as disconnected fragments which explains why the discussion so far heads all over the place.
--------------------
_ 🧠_
|
Grapefruit
Freak in the forest



Registered: 05/09/08
Posts: 5,744
Last seen: 3 years, 2 months
|
Re: A View On Cognitive Psychology... [Re: redgreenvines]
#14516488 - 05/26/11 05:05 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
|
|
Quote:
redgreenvines said: "something known as cognitive processing"
that's merely a platitude or a placeholder for the real thing we want to know about - anything hinged to that falls to dust or stands as disconnected fragments which explains why the discussion so far heads all over the place.
Though I'm not sure I quite grasp what you mean by this, I think I agree. It seems to me that the hunt for freedom of any kind starts through an intellectual process, this is - to me, first and foremost. Though you do gain many insights into your mindstate and proper conduct of yourself along the way, the real meat of what sets us free is gained through an understaning of the reality we inhabit.
Break the bonds of you conditioned assumptions of what we identify with and how reality operates and insights into better functioning of the organism will be granted alongside for yourself and by yourself.
I feel alot of spiritual/psychologist type people but the cart before the horse in this way because those who have travelled that path talk of the place they have been taken and not the horse that got them there.
Something like this?
-------------------- Little left in the way of energy; or the way of love, yet happy to entertain myself playing mental games with the rest of you freaks until the rivers run backwards. "Chat your fraff Chat your fraff Just chat your fraff Chat your fraff"
|
fireworks_god
Sexy.Butt.McDanger



Registered: 03/12/02
Posts: 24,855
Loc: Pandurn
Last seen: 1 year, 1 month
|
Re: A View On Cognitive Psychology... [Re: Grapefruit]
#14519236 - 05/27/11 03:24 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
|
|
Quote:
Grapefruit said: the real meat of what sets us free is gained through an understaning of the reality we inhabit.
Break the bonds of you conditioned assumptions of what we identify with and how reality operates and insights into better functioning of the organism will be granted alongside for yourself and by yourself.
Exactly.
--------------------
If I should die this very moment I wouldn't fear For I've never known completeness Like being here Wrapped in the warmth of you Loving every breath of you
|
|