Dip into Self Insight and Professional Growth

How to relate to self-insight by examining the cognitive approach

Revolutionary changes unfolded in the past three decades whereas new points were brought into focus by psychology studiers, experts, and scientists. For this reason, we often see cognition (the ability to acquire knowledge) which is the mental faculties or processes that acquire knowledge by using perceptions, intuitions, and reasoning. This process has taking the lead over the 20th century disputes and theories that lead to behaviorist approaches.

At one point, the C.E.O. workers aboard the psychology department were asked a question. The question revolved around cognitive approaches, which eight of the ten professionals agreed that cognition took the front. Many points has been issued that presented many views and questions.

Many of these questionable views stream from the Western Philosophers, (Philosophy of the mind) and (Sciences of the mind) and behaviorists (sciences of behaviors) --- (Westen, 2005) Jean Piaget became a worth mentioning philosopher when she came up with the idea that cognitive perspective is the focus “on the way people perceive, process, and retrieve information.” (pg. 15; Psychology) Jean’s new finding led other psychologists and scientists to believe that memory structures encode the information we learn from experiences so that we can store it for later use and retrieve it when needed. According to Jean’s discovery, our coding structure affects “how” easy “we can later access” the info that we retain.

Taking the dip into the mind, one may consider other aspects and theories, yet this idea led most people to believe that the human mind only functions on 10 percent of the 100% storage capacity. As humans, we typically retain numerical more so than we do names.

Taking the test: 555-8787 Green, Yellow, Orange, Purple, Black, Red

Review and try to remember these lists. Once you are finished, stop and close your eyes. Do not look at the lists again. Try to recall what you remember. Likely, you will remember the numbers, but will forget the list of colors. This is not a problem; it is just a point to be made. We have two sections of the mind, which is our long-term and short-term memory. The long-term stores permanent information, while the short-term mind stores temporary files. The mind stores information and enables us to use it when relevant questions are presented. The short-term mind cannot act as quickly to give us information because it does not connect us to direct environment; rather it links us to the past memories.


What is the purpose?

The purpose is if you intend to use self-insight to develop professional growth, thus cognitive thinking must be understood, since it gives way to the decision making processes. For example, say you stroll into a department store with the intent of buying a new Dovetail Fixture. The first thing you think of before you walk in the store is the fundamental characteristics that you want to find, such as price, style, features, quality, and so on. While you are working out the details in your mind, the salesmen is at the other end of the food chain calculating how he will describe the tool, how much the quality outweighs the cost, and so on. Both of you are dipping into the languages of knowledge. Each party is deliberating and wondering what the other one is saying, or meaning as both of you speak. The sales clerks for example, may say, “This is the bargain of a lifetime.” You might interpret this as, “there are better deals elsewhere.”

Now if you dip into your insight, you could compare and contrast the price, quality, style, and other characteristics, especially if you would have researched prior to stepping into this store. Now you must assimilate all aspects of the product, and then decide on its importance and partner that is buried deep in your mind, thus silently channeling information to help you make a decision, and is transmitted through the neural driving forces, i.e. your subconscious mind. Become the next leader.
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2007-2008 Timothy Watson

The Cognitive Perspective

Paving the way to better tomorrows, many spectators, dictators, opinionates, philosophers, writers, talk show experts, psychologists, and many others are calculating the ways one can use self-insight to move toward professional growth. Many of the ideas are streaming down the longwinding river of psychology whereas many environmentalist, behaviorists, scientists, cognitive processing, and other related persons with genius minds come up with various ideas that lead to the notions we see today. For example, under the study of child development many scientific minds discovered that relevant influences fact in to how a child grows. The cognitive perspective put much emphasis on the way that people perceived things, and processed the information, and where the information comes from. The roots of cognitive psychology has sent many experimental results upstream in order to make some valid points, which drifted us to self-insight and professional growth. Wundt is one of the entities of interest, which during the 19th century the examined the concepts of mystery or phenomena. These phenomena included influences, perceptions, and one’s ability to “remember lists of words.” (Westen, 2005)

During the experiments measurements were taken, which lead to the theory that perspectives take us through the process of thinking, retaining, and gaining information. Environmentalists put some words in on these theories, which lead us to believe that transformations stored information, and data retrieved uses a number of “mental programs,” to process and interpret
meaning. This ultimately leads to the basic responses that form through behaviors, known as output. Because of this basic knowledge, we see that how we perceive plays into how we react. Thus, we must use insight from within to find the way to developing the professional self. The mind is similar to a computer. That is the actions work in similar way.

Computer layout:
Housing or casing – keyboard (Input device) mouse (input device), monitor (Output/input device), Internal parts – motherboard – the component that controls all units – modem (The device that controls and causes input/output from the Internet), video chip or card (The device that controls images), RAM (Random Access Memory) Hard Drive (Storage), Processor --- Hard Disks ---Hard disks are responsible for holding the primary memory. This memory is stored within a computer chip that sits on the computer’s motherboard. The secondary storage unit is on the computer’s hard drive. This drive holds important memory, which instructs the computer to take action.

How does this relate to insight and professional growth? The mind is similar to a computer processor and storage compartment. We have three areas of the brain, which include the conscious, unconscious, and subconscious mind. The conscious mind holds information that we learn through experiences, events, and knowledge gained. How much one retains information is based on his or her level of reaching an understanding, how he sees things, how much his mind retains, and how attentive he was during the time of learning. We have the short and long-term memory that branches out from these areas, which the long-term memory is part of the memory that retains one’s experiences permanently; thus, this is your primary storage partition.

The short-term memory is your temporary storage screened-off area where information is stored for a short while. Like a computer, the primary storage partition branches off and functions alongside the (cylinders) cells, (Tracks), fibers, and so on. The hard drive is the electronic device, which reads/write whereas the heads pass back/forth over the cells, reads the information from the primary storage area, and then writes the information to this area of the
brain. Now, if you want to use your self-insight to develop professional growth, read and write from the primary storage while probing into the secondary storage partition to hunt for hidden messages that direct your path. Take the dip.
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2007-2008 Timothy Watson