CRI 400 Chapter Notes - Chapter 0: Biological Determinism, Proactivity, Environmental Determinism
6 Feb 2017
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Self awareness, the ability to think about your very thought process. E(cid:374)a(cid:271)les us to sta(cid:374)d apart a(cid:374)d e(cid:454)a(cid:373)i(cid:374)e e(cid:448)e(cid:374) the (cid:449)a(cid:455) (cid:449)e (cid:862)see(cid:863) oursel(cid:448)es, our self- paradigm. Genetic determinism: goes through generations and you inherited it. Psychic determinism: your upbringing, your childhood experience laid out your personal tendencies and your character structure. Environmental determinism: someone or something in your environment is responsible for your situation. Frankly helped others find meaning in their suffering and dignity in their prison existence in the death camps of the nazi germany. Imagination: the ability to create in our minds beyond our present reality. Conscience: a deep inner awareness of right and wrong. Independent will: ability to act based on our self-awareness, free of all other influences. Proactivity means that as human beings, we are responsible for our own lives. Our behaviour is a function to our decisions, not our conditions. Reactive people are often affected by their physical environment.
