A constructivist perspective on cognition: implications for cognitive therapies
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https://doi.org/10.33898/rdp.v14i56.722Keywords:
constructivism, cognition, proactivity, meaning, self-identityAbstract
Cognition is seen from a constructivist epistemology as the basic activity of living, that is, interpreting experience, ascribing meaning to the ongoing events. Therefore, cognition it is not an intellectual, rational or mental activity but an holistic one because it involves the subject as a whole, this being expressed sometimes with thoughts, but many other with emotions, images, etc. Different constructivist oriented cognitive therapies share the idea of the person as an agent who construes proactively events and incorporates those meanings into a system whose core is the self-identity. Efforts to promote change may, thus, elicit resistance unless they are harmonized with the protection of the identity system, essential for the sense of uniqueness and continuity of the subject.
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