Frames, Paradigms and Paradigm Shifts

Frames, Paradigms and Paradigm Shifts

Otto Selz is a German psychologist that credited the first fundamental ideas of cognitive psychology. (To solve a problem, we must first recognize that the situation represented by the problem, is described by a known schema. We must find that schema and compare it to the problem situation. The solution to the problem is found in the information presented by the schema which is left out of the problem situation.)

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Frames: is a packet of information that helps recognize and understand a scene. Information can come in difference ways. I child can see two glass of water. The tall glass was the same amount of water in the glass. The child is going to say that the tall glass has more water then the smaller glass. The way that the child is interpret the information help me think that the tall glass has more the smaller glass. Frameworks may consist of a body of ideas.

Paradigms are the most powerful form of mental models. A paradigm represents a well articulated shared view of events or phenomena how one is suppose to see and interpret the same. Unlike the framework, the paradigm has an internal logic and a set of assumptions that imposes itself on what is perceived. It was Thomas Kuhn (1962 in his work “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions” a monograph written for the international Encyclopedia of unified science when he was a graduate student. Paradigms start on with a general organizing theory, one that is able to join theories, assumptions, and observations about various phenomena; one that explains how reality works, what works in reality and why this theory is better than any additional theory.

Paradigm Shift is suggests that when set new information, inputs and experiences, the perspectives of individuals can modify and bring on new experiences at a personal level. The individual must, of course, choose to modify these perspectives. Personal paradigm shifts precede reinvention. The personal paradigm shift creates the context in which personal reinvention occurs. Picture your self image as an ambiguous reversible figure.