autonomy

Examples of autonomy in the following topics:

• Erikson's Stages of Psychosocial Development

  • A toddler’s main task is to resolve the issue of autonomy vs. shame and doubt by working to establish independence.
  • For example, we might observe a budding sense of autonomy in a 2-year-old child who wants to choose her clothes and dress herself.

• Evaluating the Humanistic Perspective on Personality

  • This view gives the conscious human being some necessary autonomy and frees him/her from deterministic principles.

• The Psychology of Employee Satisfaction

  • The job-characteristics model (JCM) maintains five important elements that motivate workers and performance: skill variety, task identity, task significance, autonomy, and job feedback.
  • Empowering practices often occur through a competent manager who empowers employees by practices such as sharing information, creating autonomy, and creating self-managed teams.

• Cultural and Societal Influences on Child Development

  • Child development refers to the biological, psychological, and emotional changes that occur in humans between birth and the end of adolescence, as the individual progresses from dependency to increasing autonomy.

• Cultural and Societal Influences on Adolescent Development

  • For instance, the degree to which adolescents are perceived as autonomous, or independent, beings varies widely in different cultures, as do the behaviors that represent this emerging autonomy.

• Introduction to Social Psychology and Social Perception

  • The structure-versus-agency debate may be understood as an issue of socialization against autonomy in determining whether an individual acts as a free agent or in a manner dictated by social structure.

• Socioemotional Development in Adolescence

  • Children who are raised as male, on the other hand, are often taught to value such things as autonomy and independence; therefore, many adolescent boys are more concerned with establishing and asserting their independence and defining their relation to authority.

• Defining Motivation

  • Intrinsic motivation comes from within the individual and results in a sense of autonomy, mastery, and purpose.

• Humanistic Psychology

  • It stresses the importance of free will and personal responsibility for decision-making; this view gives the conscious human being some necessary autonomy and frees them from deterministic principles.

• Psychodynamic Psychology

  • A central concept of Jung's analytical psychology is individuation: the psychological process of integrating opposites, including the conscious with the unconscious, while still maintaining their relative autonomy.