Presented at the International Conference on Identity Studies in Vienna, Austria.
http://socialsciencesandhumanities.com/upcoming-conferences-call-for-papers/international-conference-on-identity-studies/index.html
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این پاورپوینت توسط دکتر محمدی در کارگاه آگاهی، توجه، عصب شناسی و توانبخشی ارائه شده است.
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Nature of Cognitive Psychology & Current Trends
According to Neisser(1967), Cognitive Psychology is the branch of psychology concerned with how people acquire, store, transform, use and communicate information.
Cognitive Psychology deals with our mental life; what goes inside our heads when we perceive, attend, remember, think, categorize, reason, decide, and so forth.
PSYCHOLOGY-Thinking and Problem SolvingBlixs Phire
Thinking
-is type of behavior that uses as “inner representations” of objects and events.-the symbolic reference deals with remembered,absent or imagined things and events,including those and elaborates on what is present in perception and movement
Thinking Process Involves:
Problem Solving
Problem Solving*whenever goal-oriented activity is blocked,or whenever a need remained unfulfilled,or perplexity unresolved,there is a problem.
* Solving a problems usually involves discovering a correct response to a new situation*It involves the appropriate combination of concepts ,ideas and skills.
Humanistic approach talks about human potential which can only be harnessed by an individual by focussing on internalization and subjective knowledge for this world for the attainment of self-actualization or true potential by fulfilling the needs as per the hierarchy of importance.
Nature of Cognitive Psychology & Current Trends
According to Neisser(1967), Cognitive Psychology is the branch of psychology concerned with how people acquire, store, transform, use and communicate information.
Cognitive Psychology deals with our mental life; what goes inside our heads when we perceive, attend, remember, think, categorize, reason, decide, and so forth.
PSYCHOLOGY-Thinking and Problem SolvingBlixs Phire
Thinking
-is type of behavior that uses as “inner representations” of objects and events.-the symbolic reference deals with remembered,absent or imagined things and events,including those and elaborates on what is present in perception and movement
Thinking Process Involves:
Problem Solving
Problem Solving*whenever goal-oriented activity is blocked,or whenever a need remained unfulfilled,or perplexity unresolved,there is a problem.
* Solving a problems usually involves discovering a correct response to a new situation*It involves the appropriate combination of concepts ,ideas and skills.
Humanistic approach talks about human potential which can only be harnessed by an individual by focussing on internalization and subjective knowledge for this world for the attainment of self-actualization or true potential by fulfilling the needs as per the hierarchy of importance.
Behavioral Finance for Financial PlannersRussell James
A review of several behavioral economics / behavioral finance concepts and examples of how to apply the dual-self economic model to advising clients in a financial planning context.
Videos:
Mindfulness - How To Actually Practice Mindfulness & Conquer Your Emotions :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01Pfs3VuizM
Daniel Goleman on Focus: The Secret to High Performance and Fulfilment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTfYv3IEOqM&t=1472s
Articles:
Dr. Richard Reoch : http://richardreoch.info/mindful-leadership-resources/
Self-evaluate yourself:
Self-assessment 1: https://www.onlineassessmenttool.com/how-is-your-focus/assessment-56436
Self-assessment 2: https://www.onlineassessmenttool.com/how-do-you-help-yourself-focusing/assessment-56437
Self-assessment 3 (NewYorkTimes): http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/06/07/technology/20100607-task-switching-demo.html
Mindfulness: An Antidote To Autopilot At WorkShalini Bahl
Mindfulness is becoming popular in the context of stress management and developing focus and inner calm. The greatest potential for transformation that mindfulness offers lies in its ability to wake us up from living on autopilot. This webinar offered by the Smith College Executive Education for Women focuses on the role mindfulness can play in bringing more awareness, intentionality, and control so we can make more skillful decisions.
You can view a recording of the webinar here: https://smith.adobeconnect.com/p4g9ns9c17o/?launcher=false&fcsContent=true&pbMode=normal
This session will offer a new and different approach to teaching the traditional type of American culture seminar class. Attendees will be able to take away simple and creative ways to implement this approach in their own programs.
There is a trend in education to make use of crowdfunding. Different platforms will be compared to highlight specific advantages and disadvantages. The presenter successfully ran a Kickstarter campaign in 2015 to fund a music project. She can give useful tips on aspects that make a crowdfunded project successful. A discussion will follow the presentation.
Part 1 (Spirituality) Lecture on Spirituality & Development to students at Cambridge University -- explains why misconceptions about knowledge in west make it difficult to understand spirituality
Strategic Note-taking for Social Sciences Research QRSTUV.docxrjoseph5
Strategic Note-taking for Social Sciences Research: QRSTUV
Title and
Author
Question Research
Methods
Summary of Findings Takeaway
Message
Unfamiliar
Vocabulary
Kenneth Gergen,
“Together We
Construct Our
Worlds”
P5-12
Since what we
consider real is
socially
constructed,
what makes
people agree it
is real.
For example:
Before we
know tree is
tree. What
makes people
believe it is
tree?
Observation Gergen argues the most important means
of reality maintenance is conversation. It
is through conversation that we create
social common sense, which is also what
makes our world today. For example, if we
do not agree on trees as trees, then, there
will be no trees.
Social Origins of Good and Real:
• The ways in which we understand the
world is not required by “what there is.”
• The ways in which we describe and
explain the world are the outcomes of
relationship.
• Constructions gain their significance
from social utility.
• Values are created and sustained within
forms of life (including science).
If everything we
consider real is
socially
constructed, then
nothing is real
unless people
agree that it is.
Social
Convention : are
those arbitrary rules
and norms
governing the
countless behaviors
all of us engage in
every day without
necessarily thinking
about them, from
shaking hands when
greeting someone to
driving on the right
side of the road.
Social Utility :
is a service, or
characteristic, that
benefits the
majority of
population of any
given society.
Gerld Handel,
Spencer Cahill,
Frederick Elkin,
“Human Neural
Plasticity and
Socialization”
P13-19
Is it possible to
have a child
who were
born with
disability to
succeed as a
normal child?
Observation,
Content Analysis
• This article introduce the debate of
nature versus nurture focusing on human
development and individuals’
consequent abilities and characteristics.
• The author of shows a couple studies
that is limited to the importance of
neural plasticity during primary or
children socialization.
• The author is proven that neural
plasticity of human brain are the
foundation of child development. It is
what shapes the child’s personality and
abilities.
• However, socialization/experience
shapes biological functioning. In another
word, experience is what shapes the
neural circuitry of the human brain and
sustain it.
Humans have
not a single but
dual nature.
Human Neural
Plasticity : The
brain's ability to
reorganize itself by
forming new neural
connections
throughout life.
Synapse : a junction
between two nerve
cells, consisting of a
minute gap across
which impulses pass
by diffusion of a
neurotransmitter.
Infantile Autistic:
characterized by lack
of interest in others,
impaired
communication skills,
and bizarre behavior,
as ritualistic acts and
excessive attachment
to objects.
Kent Sandstorm,
“Symbols and the
Creation of
Reality”
P20-27
What is some
downside when.
A presentation I have on veganism. I'm a flexible vegan, which means that I prefer eating vegan, but when I'm not I follow a lacto-ovo-vegetarian diet.
Another guest lecture on meditation. I give an overview of the different forms of meditation techniques out there. And we practice as a group together at the end.
Cutting through false dualisms: Transformative social change as a moral frame...Robert Beshara
My doctoral qualifying exam, which was an oral presentation...
In the paper, I think deeply about the moral dimension of psychological research, while drawing from Buddhism, phenomenology, and critical psychology.
Postmodernist cinema, and questions of 'reality'Robert Beshara
This paper will address the representation of various levels of ‘reality’, especially the psychological, in postmodernist cinema, particularly in the work of Jean-Luc Godard. Various theories of realism will be addressed. Reference will be made to dramatic structure, acknowledging art cinema’s debt to theatre, particularly the theories of Aristotle, Artaud, and Brecht. For instance, Godard clearly has been influenced stylistically by some of the tenets of Brecht’s Epic Theatre, such as his emphasis on presentation versus representation. The main argument of the paper is that postmodernist cinema, marked by excessive stylization in its presentation of various levels of reality, in fact manages to capture the ‘real’ in a deeper way than observational cinema and so-called ‘reality TV’
Transcinema: The purpose, uniqueness, and future of cinemaRobert Beshara
This paper was presented the 2013 Key West International Multidisciplinary Academic Conference: www.isisworld.org/
The conference took place at Pier House Hotel from May 4 - 5.
The Chakra System in our body - A Portal to Interdimensional Consciousness.pptxBharat Technology
each chakra is studied in greater detail, several steps have been included to
strengthen your personal intention to open each chakra more fully. These are designed
to draw forth the highest benefit for your spiritual growth.
The Good News, newsletter for June 2024 is hereNoHo FUMC
Our monthly newsletter is available to read online. We hope you will join us each Sunday in person for our worship service. Make sure to subscribe and follow us on YouTube and social media.
Homily: The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity Sunday 2024.docxJames Knipper
Countless volumes have been written trying to explain the mystery of three persons in one true God, leaving us to resort to metaphors such as the three-leaf clover to try to comprehend the Divinity. Many of us grew up with the quintessential pyramidal Trinity structure of God at the top and Son and Spirit in opposite corners. But what if we looked at this ‘mystery’ from a different perspective? What if we shifted our language of God as a being towards the concept of God as love? What if we focused more on the relationship within the Trinity versus the persons of the Trinity? What if stopped looking at God as a noun…and instead considered God as a verb? Check it out…
The PBHP DYC ~ Reflections on The Dhamma (English).pptxOH TEIK BIN
A PowerPoint Presentation based on the Dhamma Reflections for the PBHP DYC for the years 1993 – 2012. To motivate and inspire DYC members to keep on practicing the Dhamma and to do the meritorious deed of Dhammaduta work.
The texts are in English.
For the Video with audio narration, comments and texts in English, please check out the Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF2g_43NEa0
The Book of Joshua is the sixth book in the Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament, and is the first book of the Deuteronomistic history, the story of Israel from the conquest of Canaan to the Babylonian exile.
What Should be the Christian View of Anime?Joe Muraguri
We will learn what Anime is and see what a Christian should consider before watching anime movies? We will also learn a little bit of Shintoism religion and hentai (the craze of internet pornography today).
Lesson 9 - Resisting Temptation Along the Way.pptxCelso Napoleon
Lesson 9 - Resisting Temptation Along the Way
SBs – Sunday Bible School
Adult Bible Lessons 2nd quarter 2024 CPAD
MAGAZINE: THE CAREER THAT IS PROPOSED TO US: The Path of Salvation, Holiness and Perseverance to Reach Heaven
Commentator: Pastor Osiel Gomes
Presentation: Missionary Celso Napoleon
Renewed in Grace
In Jude 17-23 Jude shifts from piling up examples of false teachers from the Old Testament to a series of practical exhortations that flow from apostolic instruction. He preserves for us what may well have been part of the apostolic catechism for the first generation of Christ-followers. In these instructions Jude exhorts the believer to deal with 3 different groups of people: scoffers who are "devoid of the Spirit", believers who have come under the influence of scoffers and believers who are so entrenched in false teaching that they need rescue and pose some real spiritual risk for the rescuer. In all of this Jude emphasizes Jesus' call to rescue straying sheep, leaving the 99 safely behind and pursuing the 1.
6. “I’m the f***ing Mona Lisa, bitches!”
In the West,
we fetishize
the Self via
new
technologies
(e.g.,
smartphones
and social
networks)
But is this
really a
practice of
self-
knowledge?
7. Changing the question
Who am I? How am “I” (this body-
mind complex in
spacetime called
Robert)—how am I
interbeing with the
world?
Or more importantly,
who do I want to
become?
8. Deconstructive questions
• What are self and identity, and what is the
relationship between them?
• What is the relationship between
consciousness and the unconscious?
• What is the relationship between knowledge
and wisdom?
• What is the relationship between the body,
the mind, and the world?
10. Self and Identities:
Same idea, different words
• Self and skandhas or aggregates (Buddhist
Psychology)
• Self and id, ego, and super-ego (Freudian
Psychoanalysis)
• Self and Parts (Internal Family Systems Model
or IFS)
• Self and complexes & archetypes (Analytical
Psychology)
• Self and subpersonalities (Psychosynthesis)
11. The Five Skandhas
(or aggregates)
1. Form
2. Feelings
3. Perceptions
4. Mental formations
5. Consciousness
12. The decentered subject of
Freudian Psychoanalysis
Who we are
(consciously and
unconsciously) vs.
who we think we
are (e.g., delusions
of grandeur).
13. Richard Schwartz’s
IFS Model
According to the IFS model,
the Self is a leader like the
conductor of an orchestra.
There three main parts
identified by Richard
Schwartz are:
Managers, firefighters, and
exiles.
14. Carl G. Jung’s
Analytical Psychology
The goal of therapy:
deconstructing identities to
reconstruct the Self
(aka individuation). In other
words, who’s in charge here?
16. Understanding Our Mind:
Key Buddhist concepts
• The Four Noble Truths: suffering, creating
suffering, cessation of creating suffering, and the
path.
• The Noble Eightfold Path: Right View, Right
Thinking, Right Speech, Right Action, Right
Livelihood, Right Diligence, Right Mindfulness,
and Right Concentration.
• The Three Marks of Existence: impermanence,
suffering, and non-self.
• The Two Truths Doctrine: Relative Truth and
Absolute Truth
17. Three Kinds of Suffering
1. The suffering of suffering (e.g., the pain of a
toothache).
2. The suffering of composite things (i.e.,
everything decays).
3. The suffering associated with change (aka
impermanence): we all grow old, get sick,
and die.
18. Anattā, or non-self
• Non-self means we are empty of a separate
self. We do not exist in a vacuum.
• In other words, everything is interconnected
—we inter-are.
• A positive restatement of non-self is to call it
relational, social, or dialogical Self.
• The Self is empty because it is made up of
non-Self elements as I illustrated earlier with
the bit on Self and identities.
19. Right View: Interbeing
“As a practitioner of mindfulness, you look deeply into
this flower and you see that it is made only of non-
flower elements. There’s a cloud inside also, because if
there’s no cloud, there’s no rain and no flower can
grow. So you don’t see the form of a cloud, but the
cloud is there. And that is the practice of what we call
signlessness. You don’t need a sign, a certain form of
appearance in order to see it. There’s the sunshine
inside. We know that if there is no sunshine, no flower
can grow. There is the topsoil inside. Many things are
inside: light, minerals, the gardener. It seems that
everything in the cosmos has come together to help
produce this flower” (Hanh, 2013).
22. Transpersonal Knowing (Hart, Nelson,
& Puhakka, 2000) vs. Knowledge
Wisdom Ignorance
Knowing
Past
Present
Non-self
(Interbeing)
Separate
self
Who you think
you are
(consciousness)
Who you are
(consciousness + the unconscious)
23. Ways of Transpersonal Knowing
• Examples include: empathic encounters between
persons, sexual experiences, and service.
• Mindfulness, as a practice, is one way of transpersonal
knowing, where affect, cognition, and volition can be in
harmony. Body and mind are one in the here and the
now.
24. Seeds of mindfulness
(Hanh, 1998, p. 208)
I think therefore I am not.
To be or not to be, that is not the question.
25. Theses
• The Self is a paradox. It is an illusion; nevertheless, a
useful one (e.g, self-leadership).
• We have multiple identities not just one; they
shouldn’t be in charge.
• A transdisciplinary psychology ought to look at the
interactions between the body, the mind, and the
world.
• We need not only knowledge (science) but also
wisdom (philosophy) if we are to survive as a
species, which is a call for secular ethics--a new
mythos perhaps?
29. Why do we need a Self?
The Mirror Stage
Healthy narcissism of the modern neurotic
30. Auto-eroticism vs. self-reflection
Self-reflection as vanity (think selfies) vs. the mirror
as “a symbol of the power of reflection to modify
desire (Booth, 2008, p.95), which perhaps
distinguishes us from other animals?
32. Towards a transdisciplinary psychology:
Body, mind, and world
Mind ≠ Brain
Body ≠ perfect European man
(e.g., the Vitruvian Man)
World ≠ the Americas
33. What is mind?
• “Mind is defined in Buddhism as a non-physical
phenomenon which perceives, thinks, recognizes,
experiences and reacts to the environment.”
• “The two main types of mind are explained as the
conceptual and the non-conceptual. The conceptual
is the "normal" mind aspect we use to survive in
daily life, but is ultimately mistaken about the way
in which reality exists. The non-conceptual type of
mind is also called the Buddha nature […]
fundamental pure nature of mind which realizes
emptiness.”
Source: http://viewonbuddhism.org/mind.html
34. The dualistic nature of language:
Or how we reify our Selves
• “Lightning strikes”
• A similar principle is at work when it comes to
selfhood, or psychological reality in general.
When we say “I,” we reify ourselves, and we
separate ourselves from the Other, which is
the subject-object problem in Western
philosophy.
• Can consciousness exist without an observer?
35. The myth of individualism
Governments,
corporations, and the
mass media will have
us believe that we are
incredibly unique so
that we do not stop
consuming, be that in
the form of purchasing
a product or casting a
vote.
(individualism vs.
individuation, which is a
transpersonal concept that
has to do with integration)
36. Context is everything:
Self vis-à-vis society
In the West, the
Copernican revolution
was a paradigm shift
that resulted in the
decentering of the Self
among other things
39. The heliocentric model
The cult of celebrity: In contemporary mythology, we
worship celebrities, whom we view as demigods. No
wonder why we call them ‘stars.’ Perhaps, we ought
to come up with an alternative system of secular
ethics in place of the god of capitalism?
40. ECOCENTRISM
The next developmental stage in our evolution?
Premodernity => modernity => postmodernity =>
transmodernity
Egocentrism => Ethnocentrism =>
Worldcentrism/Ecocentrism/Biocentrism
41. Essentialism and performativity
• “All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women
merely players.
They have their exits and
their entrances,
And one man in his time plays
many parts,
His acts being seven ages” –
from William Shakespeare’s
As You Like It.
42. Free will vs. determinism
• How can we reconcile biological determinism
with freedom of choice?
• The Buddhist answer is pragmatic: we work
with the givens, and so beyond free will and
determinism, we try to liberate ourselves
from suffering through understanding
(transpersonal knowing) to achieve greater
freedom; after all, creativity is about working
within limitations.
43. Conclusion
• Our Self and identities are not only socially
constructed, they are also psychologically constructed.
• SC can help us understand how our Self and identities
are socially constructed, while Buddhist Psychology can
help us understand how they are psychologically
constructed.
• Said psychosocial understanding can only be the result
of a marriage between knowledge and
wisdom/knowing (e.g., mindfulness), especially if we
want to become empowered as individuals in society,
that is, if we want to practice our freedom of choice in
performing any act we desire without being delusional
about who we are.
44. Conclusion (CONT’D)
• In other words, we are not who we think we
are: we are not our bodies and we are not our
minds, souls, or spirits. Rather, we are
bodyminds interbeing with the world in the
here and the now.
• Think of the liberating potential of the current
framework in terms of individual
transformation and social change.
45. The other side:
Mirrors and reflections in contemporary art
At Belvedere till October 12th
, 2014