Please signpost: is there a national or international method of visualising thought? I am aware of methods such as Means-End Chain Theory and Laddering, but is there a recommended (and valid) method within the psychological domain?
Likely experiment:
a) Capture thought/ schema/ cognitive map before learning
b) Provide input (unit of work)
c) Capture thought/ schema/ cognitive map after learning
Thank you for any suggestions.
It's an interesting topic. Our research group it's aimed to study the role of cognitive conflicts in mental health and psychotherapy. We assume a cognitive constructivist perspective (Kelly's Personal Construct Theory), studying two kind of cognitive conflicts: Dilemmatic Construct and Implicative Dilemma .Both can be measured through the Repertory Grid Technique. This instrument allows particularly forms of visualisation of this conflicts and of the whole system of meaning used by the assessed person. You can check: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261702302_Cognitive_conflicts_in_major_depression_Between_desired_change_and_personal_coherence
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281778852_Self-narrative_reconstruction_after_dilemma-focused_therapy_for_depression_A_comparison_of_good_and_poor_outcome_cases
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Dear Daniel,
perhaps you get some ideas from these papers. Check their references also:
Chapter MacIntyre, T. & Moran, A. P. (2009). Meta-Imagery processes ...
Article A Way of Visualising Children's and Young People's Thoughts ...
Conference Paper Eye-tracking: Retracing visual perception in the everyday en...
Dear Danilo and Béatrice,
Thank you for your suggestions they have opened new reading pathways.
Dan
You might consider some of the methodological work in current dynamic systems psychology. There are various techniques where a person can use a computer or smartphone to provide information about attitudes, for instance, in at least two dimensions. For example, you can measure agreement/disagreement and attitude importance on a two-axis scale and present participants with a response grid on a screen.
A finer resolution might come from a technique like the "Mouse Paradigm" by Vallacher and Nowak. In this technique, participants move a computer cursor to express attitudes or evaluations about some target. The cursor position is recorded every 10msec and can then be analyzed like a time series. Recently, I (along with Vallacher and Liebovitch) developed some methods for studying the coherence of attitudes/evaluations captured with this method.
Source: Volatile Psychological Dynamics in Social Interactions Attitudes and Emotions React Asymmetrically to Interaction Shifts Between Agreement and Disagreement
JL Michaels, RR Vallacher, LS Liebovitch - Social Psychological and Personality Science, 2013
The appendix detailing the methods we developed is available on my research gate.
While these techniques are a bit different than what others describe, they show promise for identifying the coherence in moment-to-moment stream of thought. We've also identified that the methods appear valid considering correlations with established instruments (e.g. Action Identification measured via the BIF). I hope this helps!
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