Specific Phenomena of Cognition: Predictors of Life Strategies

Abstract

The problem field of the presented study includes understudied sociopsychological aspects of attribution in various life situations of an individual. Often, ignorance of the psychological fundamentals of one’s own behavior and behavior of other people leads to unintentional errors that can lead to the most serious consequences. Attributive processes in the range of such potential reasons take one of the first places. It is for these reasons that this study is important both in theoretical and in scientific and practical aspects. The paper presents the results of a theoretical and methodological analysis of the problem of cognitive phenomena of knowledge: predictors of life scenarios in a dimension of attribution. The following indicators of assessing life events have been formulated: a type of event, inclusion in the situational context, self-assessment by a person of the significance and emotional coloring of the event, the structure of inter-event relationships and the role of the event in this structure. The research tools have been determined that are used to study the person’s life path, his life strategies and alternatives based on biographical methods of personality research. A program has been designed for the application of psychological diagnostic methods in the study of life events of an individual. To study the life path of an individual, his life strategies and alternatives, it is necessary to conduct a comprehensive study, including applied technologies for modeling the life path of an individual in comparison with the norms and types obtained statistically in large samples. It has been proved that the psychological space of the personality of an individual from the point of view of the attributive approach is multi-alternative and multi-tiered. A negative consequence of variability is a constant distortion: the prevalence in the processes of understanding and interpretation of another person of the estimated component; a low level of reflection, accompanied by resistance to awareness of the causes of their difficulties and unwillingness to change anything in his behavior.