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  2. Schema (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    In psychology and cognitive science, a schema (pl.: schemata or schemas) describes a pattern of thought or behavior that organizes categories of information and the relationships among them. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It can also be described as a mental structure of preconceived ideas, a framework representing some aspect of the world, or a system of ...

  3. Level of analysis - Wikipedia

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    Generally, power is the concept that collects all the analysis together. For example, the struggle for power may be the cause of war, but the struggle for power may originate in the individual human being's lust for power. The lust for power is individual level of analysis, while the struggle for power is systemic level of analysis. [9]

  4. Big Five personality traits - Wikipedia

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    [164] [165] For example, Thompson has claimed to find the Big Five structure across several cultures using an international English language scale. [166] Cheung, van de Vijver, and Leong (2011) suggest, however, that the Openness factor is particularly unsupported in Asian countries and that a different fifth factor is identified.

  5. Self-schema - Wikipedia

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    A few examples of self-schemas are: exciting or dull; quiet or loud; healthy or sickly; athletic or nonathletic; lazy or active; and geek or jock. If a person has a schema for "geek or jock," for example, he might think of himself as a bit of a computer geek and would possess a lot of information about that trait. Because of this, he would ...

  6. Interpersonal circumplex - Wikipedia

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    For example, a person who is stubborn and inflexible in their personal relationships might graph her personality somewhere on the arc between dominance and love. However, a person who exhibits passive–aggressive tendencies might find herself best described on the arc between submission and hate.

  7. Mental model - Wikipedia

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    System structure diagrams – another way to express the structure of a qualitative dynamic system Stock and flow diagrams - a way to quantify the structure of a dynamic system These methods allow showing a mental model of a dynamic system, as an explicit, written model about a certain system based on internal beliefs.

  8. Maslow's hierarchy of needs - Wikipedia

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    Air, for example, is a physiological need; a human being requires air more urgently than higher-level needs, such as a sense of social belonging. Physiological needs are critical to "meet the very basic essentials of life". [13] This allows for cravings such as hunger and thirst to be satisfied and not disrupt the regulation of the body.

  9. Image schema - Wikipedia

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    Schematic integrations. The first conceptual representations to include non-spatial elements, by projecting feelings or non-spatial perceptions to blends structured by image schema See also