1. Planning Theory
1.1. Goals
1.1.1. Goals are defined as future states an individual wants to attain. There are two types of goals.
1.1.1.1. Primary goals or push goals are the goals that motivate or push one to speak, and they determine the plans and actions.These schemata drive actions.
1.1.1.2. econdary goals, also called pull goals are sets of boundaries that limit plans.
1.2. Plans
1.2.1. Planning is the process of thinking about the activities required to achieve a desired goal. It is the first and foremost activity to achieve desired results.
1.2.2. It involves the creation and maintenance of a plan, such as psychological aspects that require conceptual skills.
1.3. Assumptions
1.3.1. Our actions are based on the interpretation of the behavior, not on the behavior itself
1.3.2. These interpretations are subconscious
1.3.3. Goals and plans not only guide our actions, but also helps us understand the actions of others
1.3.4. The knowledge to guide our actions comes from mediated and unmediated experience
1.3.5. Accomplishing goals requires both the plans and the skills neccessary for producing effective social action
1.4. Claims
1.4.1. Long term memory helps us create effective plans and goals
1.4.2. When we succeed in our plans we feel happinness, satisfaction, and pride; when we fail, frustration, anxiety, stress
2. Schema Theory
2.1. person schema
2.1.1. the expectation of something/someone.
2.2. social script
2.2.1. How would be the best way to communicate with others.
2.3. levels of expertise
2.3.1. It is based on previous experiences.
2.4. Assumptions
2.4.1. We seek facts that are consistent with our attitudes, beliefs, and values
2.4.2. We always have a why question to everything
2.4.3. We organiza information with the purpose of making it manageable
2.5. Claims
2.5.1. Schema activation
2.5.1.1. When we create a schema for the first time
2.5.2. The schema changes all the time
2.5.3. People hace levels of expetise, thanks to the concept schemas
3. Constructivism
3.1. Assumptions
3.1.1. personal constructs
3.1.1.1. individuals can be psychologically evaluated according to similarity–dissimilarity poles
3.1.1.2. People make sens of the world through personal constructs
3.1.2. perceptual set
3.1.2.1. Perceptual set is a tendency to perceive or notice some aspects of the available sensory data and ignore others.
3.2. ‘an approach to learning that holds that people actively construct or make their own knowledge and that reality is determined by the experiences of the learner’
3.3. Claims
3.3.1. Skillful communicators use well their cognitive complex
3.3.2. People with cognitive complex will elaborate person-centered messages
3.3.3. People need to be motivated to produce these person-centered messages