Monday 15 October 2012

tid bits of psychology notes

Introspection is knowing ourselves.  The more we look within ourselves, the more we begin to understand ourselves.  Therapy focuses within the inner – know thyself.  You are actually paying someone in therapy to introduce you to yourself.  How we project ourselves on the outside can be very different from what we are in the inside.

As rehearsal, when it comes to learning increases, relearning time decreases.  Take time to understand what you are learning, grasp it and rehearse it and if so, the next time your relearn, time is less.   Repetition resists decay, interference and obliteration.
When we dissociate we are no longer clear because we associate with something else.  An example of this would be that we are all individuals but part of groups.  Sometimes, I have to step back and find myself.  There is a loss of identity but when we step back and therefore with the information we take it apart from the rest and know if for itself. 
Review;
Thinking integratively -  integrating new experience with what you already know.  Mature adults interpret what they read, see, or hear in terms of its meaning for them.  Instead of accepting something at face value, they filter it through their own life experience and learning.  Integrative thinking has emotional and social implications.
In accordance with post formal theorists, people at the stage of formal operations, are in the grip of polarized thinking.  They do not see when there may be truth, logic or validity in more than one point of view.

Abuse by homosexual parents is rare.  Most abusive acts are committed by heterosexual parents.
Invitro fertilization of an ovum outside the mother’s body and later implantation in her uterous.
Ovum transfer – inplantation of an ovum donated by a fertile woman.

Blended family (step family)

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