Plagiarism Declaration ............................................................................................................... 2
Question 1: First Order Cybernetic Perspective ........................................................................ 1
Recursion ................................................................................................................................ 2
Equifinality/potentiality ......................................................................................................... 2
Communication and information processing ......................................................................... 3
Relationships and wholeness .................................................................................................. 3
Goals and purposes ................................................................................................................. 3
Question 2: Second Order Cybernetic Perspective .................................................................... 4
Reality as a multiverse ........................................................................................................... 4
Epistemology of participation ................................................................................................ 5
Autopoiesis ............................................................................................................................. 5
Structural determinism ........................................................................................................... 5
Structural Coupling ................................................................................................................ 6
Feedback ................................................................................................................................. 6
Openness and closedness ....................................................................................................... 6
Question 3: Meta perspective..................................................................................................... 6
Question 3.2: Ethical Considerations ......................................................................................... 7
Question 3.3: Incorporating African Psychology ...................................................................... 8
Question 3.4: Criticisms of the Ecological Perspective ............................................................. 9
Reference List .......................................................................................................................... 11
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