autonomy
(noun)
Self-government; freedom to act or function independently.
Examples of autonomy in the following topics:
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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.
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Evaluating the Humanistic Perspective on Personality
- This view gives the conscious human being some necessary autonomy and frees him/her from deterministic principles.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Defining Motivation
- Intrinsic motivation comes from within the individual and results in a sense of autonomy, mastery, and purpose.
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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.
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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.