Typology of seven cognitive styles based on cognitive structures, discourse-language and lived experience in formal post-operational studies

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 PhD Student in General Psychology, Arak Branch, Islamic Azad University, Arak, Iran

2 Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Psychology, Arak Branch, Islamic Azad University, Arak, Iran (corresponding author)

3 Assistant Professor, Department of General Psychology, Arak Branch, Islamic Azad University, Arak, Iran

4 Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Psychology, Arak Branch, Islamic Azad University, Arak, Iran

Abstract

Introduction: Cognitive style is a psychological concept based on which people use information from the surrounding environment under certain thought patterns in order to expand their knowledge about the surrounding world. In this research, the explanation of the seven cognitive styles based on cognitive structures, language-discourse and lived experience in Piaget's post-operational studies as structurators who give structure to the formless and meaningless mass of external sensations and perceptions and create meaning and worldview, language creates discourse and shapes lived experience and existence.
Methods: The method of qualitative research and content analysis of texts using selected texts included various worldviews. The statistical sample and the sampling method were purposeful and the study was completed until theoretical saturation was reached, and the coding and textual analysis process was carried out in the qualitative data analysis software Max QDA 2018.
Results:  The findings showed that three categories of cognitive structures, language-discourse and lived experience were determined from among the five components of causal, contextual and intervening conditions and strategies and consequences, and the indicators of lived experience generate seven cognitive styles in the human situation. It existed in the world and man against the world
Conclusion: It seems that the seven cognitive styles have the capacity to open new horizons in research in many cases.

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Medical Journal of Mashhad university of Medical Sciences
Volume 66, Issue 6
January and February 2024

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