Re: PCP & being merely cognitive

juan manuel toro (jmtoros@hotmail.com)
Thu, 15 Oct 1998 08:15:42 PDT

>>> "Personal construct theory was first postulated as a theory of
personality
>>> (Kelly, 1955); but later adherents assign it a more limited role as
a
>>> theory of cognition (Fransella and Bannister, 1977)." in Reger, R,
and
>>> Huff, A. (1993),Strategic Groups: A Cognitive Perspective, Strategic
>>> Management Journal, Vol.14, 103-124.

Hello everybody,

Well I disagree with the authors about the term "a more limited role as
a theory of cognition", but I think PCT has to be thought as a
cognitive theory in that it subordinates all othet psychological
processes to the construction of a structure for knowing, or make sense
of the world. Therefore, I think PCT is as cognitve as Piaget's
theory.
Both of them give an epistemological answer to ontological and
psychological questions, and that is what makes them so interesting.

Best regards,

JMT

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