Education and demonstration – Psychology
Reexamination Certificate
2000-02-15
2002-01-15
Cheng, Joe H. (Department: 3713)
Education and demonstration
Psychology
C434S350000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06338628
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates in general to computer-based training and development systems, and more particularly, to a computer-implemented personalized training and development delivery system.
The explosive growth of the Internet over the past few years has resulted in the increasing acceptance by both businesses and consumers of conducting transactions over the Internet. Consumers are using the Internet to enhance their personal and financial lives. These consumers are pressed for time, constantly demanding convenience and 24 hour access to information and services. Commercial business enterprises are increasingly turning to the Internet to offer product and services. The present invention capitalizes on the increasing use of the Internet to deliver personalized training and development reminders to reinforce an individual's strengths in his decision-making capabilities while simultaneously modifying his weaknesses.
A person's decisions and actions involve a factual element which can be seen and objectively measured, and an intangible element which can be felt and known with certainty but may not be immediately or apparently expressible in reasons, facts and causes. The intangibles such as attitudes, likes, dislikes and beliefs are referred to as values. Moreover, these intangibles are usually considered to be subjective, i.e., to be the personal property of those who know the special meaning of the value words. The problem experienced is that each person's values seem to belong to him personally, to be his personal property to which others may or may not have access. Axiology, the science of value, provides a solution to this problem by forming a frame of reference which can be applied to all value situations.
The mathematical and logical structure of value concepts is the cornerstone of axiology. This structure allows the measurement of how a person thinks and perceives, rather than what he or she is thinking or perceiving. In other words, value science tells us what an individual pays attention to in his thinking, what is important to him, and what his biases and prejudices are. Natural science explains human behavior. Axiology explains and measures the thinking processes which form the foundation for, and leads to, behavior.
Conflict occurs when the different perspectives of individuals clash, i.e., because of each individual's uniqueness, a shared or common decision cannot be reached because each individual's problems and priorities are different and because each individual's motivations emphasize different aspects of the same thing. Conflict resolution requires a problem solving technique which incorporates all perspectives into the problem solving process. Axiology is an objective format for measuring intangible attitudes and values. Moreover, axiology measures the level of development and the types of perceptual biases in an individual's thinking. Value science measures the capacity to value and provides a framework for understanding confrontational values.
The distinguishing feature about axiology is that it incorporates a third dimension into the communications and problem solving process. Every individual has certain basic physical traits, abilities and limitations which medical science can measure. The outward expression of these skills is manifested in an individual's behavior, in the way an individual uses these inborn and developed skills to relate to his environment. Human behavior can be observed, categorized and measured. The social sciences focus on the explanation of human behavior. There is a third region which stands between and incorporates the physical attributes and their outward manifestations and behavior. This region is an individual's perception of self and world and the transfer of these perceptions, concepts, and ideas. Value science mathematically defines perceptual capacity and measures the ability to create concepts out of perceptions, i.e., the ability to make value judgments. In effect, axiology measures the why of behavior by measuring the thinking process behind the behavior.
Through axiological analysis, the unique patterns which belong to each individual can be observed and studied in an objective format. An individual's patterns can be compared to those patterns which can belong to other individuals and can be integrated into actual problem situations. The objective evaluation of each person's value patterns serves as a means for helping an individual understand his or her potential for development and the blocks which can inhibit personal growth. As a result, the integrity coming from a person's unique character can be protected. At the same time, the conflicts which can and do occur because of this unique individuality can be understood, and can be prevented or diffused.
While the science of formal axiology addresses areas that are classically addressed by psychology and linguistics, its deductive nature makes it more like physics than natural philosophy. The science of axiology, which was developed by Dr. Robert S. Hartman, is a deductive science of value. It is based on Dr. Hartman's discovery and definition of the three dimensions of value, their specific and distinct properties, the isomorphic relationship of those dimensions to the concept of sets in transfinite set theory, and the modeling of human decision making with the mathematical models.
The three dimensions of value are the cornerstone of the science. Just as distance and time had to be defined and quantified in order to develop a formula for velocity, so too, the dimensions of value had to be defined and quantified to develop a formula of decision making. Dr. Hartman deduced that the properties of those three dimensions of value (the three ways that things, people, and individuals can be known) had properties that were identical to the three sets of transfinite set calculus. This is similar to a physicist modeling a driver of a car trying to keep a car on the exit ramp of a super highway. The physicist can model the trajectory of a car with the mathematics of physics without the car ever existing or without ever seeing or driving a car.
An example of a deductive process will be trying to predict defined behavior of a sub-group of American, male executives between the ages of 33 and 48, making more than $75,000.00. A person fitting into this group would have probabilities assigned to certain other observed behaviors that are consistent with a certain percentage of the members of this group. So through inductive reasoning, an assertion can be made that there is a 50% chance that the given individual found in this group drives a leased BMW or Mercedes Benz. This is a beneficial discipline, because it permits a social scientists to develop general understanding of certain groups and population. Its limitation is that every aspect of this measurement is relative to other aspects. This results in the applications being culturally and temporally limited.
Dr. Hartman categorized the dimensions of value into systemic, extrinsic, and intrinsic. Systemic value is the dimension of formal constructs; the ideas of how things should be. This dimension is one of definitions or ideas, goals, structured thinking, policies, procedures, rules, and laws. If a person values someone or an object systemically, then that person or object has to fulfill the idea perfectly. There is no middle ground for partial fulfillment in systemic value. The concept is either perfectly fulfilled or not fulfilled at all. Thus, systemic dimension is a very limited dimension. The mathematical properties of this dimension are finite sets and finite elements, i.e., there are a limited number of choices and a limited number of properties for the particular object in question. Too much attention to this dimension results in behavior that is too focused on doing things by the book, a preoccupation with planning and having things done perfectly, a tendency to measure everything and everyone against a preset idea of how th
Cheng Joe H.
Christman Kathleen M.
Clear Direction, Inc.
Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice PLLC
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