Describing Psychology - Vocabulary Thesaurus
Jun 3, 2016 17:43:36 GMT -5 by ayoungspirit
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Post by ayoungspirit on Jun 3, 2016 17:43:36 GMT -5
As it incorporates elements from personal experience as well as empirical observation, the practice of analytical psychology as encouraged by CT is confronted to an ever expanding field of phenomenons, which makes continually challenging the prospect to describe them adequately. Each word of the previous sentence could in fact already be annotated without end. Thus, in the hope to further one's understanding, I believe verbal fluency and its reasoning could be be as much an useful means as the interpretation of visual signals itself.
Multiple angles could be taken on this problematic, whether in microstructure (as in the meaning of a particular word or the relation of a particular event), or macrostructure (as in the organization of whole parts of the description). The current thread is intended as a space to gather and explore vocabulary, whether it is already part of the theory, or could potentially be useful.
To say it in a simpler way, one can bring any word one thinks has an interesting meaning to discuss. There is no arbitrary restriction. Feel free to be generous as one of the strong asset of language is its diversity. You can also share your best references for dictionaries, either on or offline, and as you will hopefully witness, bringing content from other contexts, like fields of study or foreign languages, could held great benefits.
Eventually, some of this material or methodology could perhaps become part of the Practitioner Program, but that is a topic for another time.
So as to give a concrete exemple, I would like to bring attention to the word orthogonal.
Orthogonal is a mathematical term which evokes the relation between two perpendicular lines. It is best known perhaps for the corresponding orthogonal projections, which are often used in charts. Thus it also designates two values which product is correlated.
However, it has been clarified to me that orthogonal can be used to designate two measures which are statistically independent. Therefore, it can describes two phenomenons which are qualitatively different, instead of quantitatively, while still being conjugated. See the source which inspired me (particularly at 2:17 and 4:05) for an application, through quotation and charting, in the field of game design.
Ultimately, such a word could prove useful to study the factored relation between cognitive functions, in contrast with such an univalent number as the IQ test for instance, or a less symmetrical partition like the Big Five.
Apologies if there is some level of inexactitude to this exposition, as I am not much savvy in mathematics. In fact, I would be delighted to learn more about it, and believe ignorance should not refrain discussion, on the contrary. Any question or idea for utilization is also welcome, albeit the concept as of now is perceptible through the CTCV webtool.
As a side note, not all words need to be such technical, and in truth, some very simple ones, like the "feeling", "thinking", "sensation" or "intuition" could lead to a lot of commentary.
Sources :
What We Can Learn From Doom | Game Maker's Toolkit
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/orthogonal
www.dictionary.com/browse/orthogonal?s=t
Multiple angles could be taken on this problematic, whether in microstructure (as in the meaning of a particular word or the relation of a particular event), or macrostructure (as in the organization of whole parts of the description). The current thread is intended as a space to gather and explore vocabulary, whether it is already part of the theory, or could potentially be useful.
To say it in a simpler way, one can bring any word one thinks has an interesting meaning to discuss. There is no arbitrary restriction. Feel free to be generous as one of the strong asset of language is its diversity. You can also share your best references for dictionaries, either on or offline, and as you will hopefully witness, bringing content from other contexts, like fields of study or foreign languages, could held great benefits.
Eventually, some of this material or methodology could perhaps become part of the Practitioner Program, but that is a topic for another time.
So as to give a concrete exemple, I would like to bring attention to the word orthogonal.
Orthogonal is a mathematical term which evokes the relation between two perpendicular lines. It is best known perhaps for the corresponding orthogonal projections, which are often used in charts. Thus it also designates two values which product is correlated.
An example of chart based on orthogonal projection
However, it has been clarified to me that orthogonal can be used to designate two measures which are statistically independent. Therefore, it can describes two phenomenons which are qualitatively different, instead of quantitatively, while still being conjugated. See the source which inspired me (particularly at 2:17 and 4:05) for an application, through quotation and charting, in the field of game design.
Ultimately, such a word could prove useful to study the factored relation between cognitive functions, in contrast with such an univalent number as the IQ test for instance, or a less symmetrical partition like the Big Five.
Apologies if there is some level of inexactitude to this exposition, as I am not much savvy in mathematics. In fact, I would be delighted to learn more about it, and believe ignorance should not refrain discussion, on the contrary. Any question or idea for utilization is also welcome, albeit the concept as of now is perceptible through the CTCV webtool.
As a side note, not all words need to be such technical, and in truth, some very simple ones, like the "feeling", "thinking", "sensation" or "intuition" could lead to a lot of commentary.
Sources :
What We Can Learn From Doom | Game Maker's Toolkit
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/orthogonal
www.dictionary.com/browse/orthogonal?s=t