Constructivism By Jesse Delia

GOALS

• Called primary because they "set into motion an ensemble of lower-level cognitive processes that occur in parallel and align with the overall aim represented by the primary goal."

PLANS

• When creating plans, use the procedural records that are stored in one's long-term memory. Think of it as the if-when-then implications for future actions.

ACTION

• Putting into action all that you have planned.

IF

• Goal, what you desire to do.

WHEN

• Situation, when an event occurs.

THEN

• Action, what you will do when the event occurs.

Frequeently asked questions

Here is an example where Person-Centered Message.

Inhabiting a world of intricate environment, role systems, and social expectations. This more complicated social world stimulates the development of more complex ways of thinking and communicating. And once developed, complex ways of thinking and acting tend to perpetuate themselves.

Constructivism 

• is a communication theory that seeks to explain individual differences in people‘s ability to communicate skillfully in social situations.

Constructs

• The cognitive template or stencils we fit over reality, to bring order to our perceptions.

Role Category Questionaire (RCQ by : Walter Crockett) 

• A free-response survey designed to measure the Cognitive Complexity of a person’s interpersonal perception. Designed to sample the interpersonal constructs in our mental toolbox.

Cognitive Complexity

• The mental ability to distinguish subtle personality and behavior differences among people. 

Person-Centered Messages

• A tailor-made message for a specific individual and context; reflect the communicator’s ability to anticipate response and adjust accordingly.The speaker is able to anticipate how different individuals might respond to a message, and adjust his or her communication accordingly. Example

Sophisticated Communication

• A person-centered message that accomplishes multiple goal.

Message Design Logics (MDLs)

• MDLs explain link between cognitive complexity and Person-Centered Messages. They are implicit theories people have about the way in which messages can be shaped as means to ends.

1. Expressive MDL: language skill to express what one thinks and feels;
2. Conventional MDL: tailoring messages to main goal, using socially conventional means, appropriate to the particular situation; 
3. Rhetorical MDL: negotiating social self and situation, redefining situation, achieving multiple goals, defusing conflict in present and in future.

Similar Skill Model

• A hypothesis that relationships fare better when parties possess the same level of verbal sophistication.

Message Production (by: James Dillard)

• A three-stage process of goals assessed, plans selected, and tactics enacted (action).

Jesse Delia