Zone 2 Methodologies: 3rd-Person Approaches to 1st-Person Realities

Analyzes the stages of an individual's cognitive and emotional growth.

Understands the evolution of self-concept and self-relation over time.

Provides a framework for assessing psychological development stages.

Helps to compare cross-cultural patterns of individual development.

Structures of consciousness.

Subject-object theory.

Qualitative research methods in psychology.

Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development.

Lawrence Kohlberg's stages of moral development.

Robert Kegan’s constructive-developmental psychology.

Investigating the progression of a child's reasoning from egocentric to logical operations.

Assessing moral judgement development in adolescents.

Views self as a complex, adaptive system.

Analyzes how self-organization patterns change over time.

Helps explain dynamics of personality and behavior within an individual.

Shows interdependence between various aspects of self and environment.

Self-organization.

Feedback loops.

Adaptive systems.

Niklas Luhmann's work on social systems.

Urie Bronfenbrenner’s ecological systems theory.

Understanding how trauma affects self-regulation mechanisms.

Analyzing coping strategies as a response to environmental stressors.

Examines how language structures shape thought and expression.

Investigates the unconscious linguistic patterns that influence cognition.

Reveals the underlying systems of meaning within individual language use.

Links linguistic structures with cognitive and emotional development.

Language acquisition and use.

Formal grammatical structures.

Semantic networks.

Ferdinand de Saussure's general linguistics theory.

Noam Chomsky’s theory of generative grammar.

Studying the impact of mother tongue grammar on perception and categorization.

Analyzing speech to identify cognitive frames and metaphors in an individual.