We talked about the fact that everyone necessarily has one construct, this is the construct of emotional assessment Like or Dislike, we once said If you imagine a person with one constructor, although in reality they don’t say that, a simple subject says that there is high and low cognitive complexity, now let’s try to explain cognitive complexity a little , namely to note what it is usually associated with; cognitive complexity of properties properties that are meaningfully connected with it; first of all, we note that with high cognitive complexity, the world for a heterogeneous person is imaginative, we can say that the view of us with whom the view of the world, even if we keep in mind the actual perception, is more differentiated, it seems to me that we can first say that often high cognitive complexity is directly related to high sensitivity , and let’s say when we visit an ophthalmologist’s office and they present us with the famous Landolt ring. Measuring our visual acuity, we will notice that sometimes the same Stimulus, the same object is used to measure cognitive complexity, in other words, if we perceive here not the letter O but the letter C, then this may indicate a higher cognitive complexity. However, this is of course necessary in the explanation and explanation there will be such a high cognitive complexity cognitive style is like a way of perceiving an object or situation if we distinguish roughly, then at least two cognitive styles can be distinguished the first is called a global style global or in another way dependent on the context dependent on the field from the surrounding background if the style is global This means that it is quite difficult for a person to distinguish the details of an object, he perceives it as a single whole and probably tests for cognitive style are familiar to everyone.
They are often found in popular magazines, well, let’s say they show us two pictures and They seem to be exactly the same But we need to find the required amount of differences between them, or we are presented with a complex configuration and we need to see inside this configuration, select a certain figure, some image, if the style is global, then there are few differences and the task of identifying a simple figure inside, say, a complex configuration seems quite difficult to the test subject and then the second style is called differentiated differentiated or field-independent, context-independent. This is where we are dealing with a subject who distinguishes an object into parts and analyzes it, and this also applies to subtle details and then we will continue further. High cognitive complexity will of course be associated with a differentiated style and add.
It is also usually associated with a higher development of creative abilities already known to us, say, divergence according to Guilford and so on, because solving a creative problem often requires highlighting little noticeable details, so to speak. hidden latent ones, if the subject has such an opportunity, this serves as a sign of high cognitive complexity. Then, of course, such a person has the ability to distinguish and much more, and we gradually move on to the actual personal characteristics.
Of course, such a person is more capable of empathy, he distinguishes the person himself from his attitude towards him, it is precisely such a person who is more accessible to the thoughts and feelings of another, and therefore his own, often high or low cognitive complexity is associated with upbringing with a mastered profession. There are popular results when two groups of children were compared in terms of cognitive complexity one group were Africans Prim their ro and the other were Canadian Eskimo hunters, respectively, their children, so the interesting result was that it would seem that Africa has a multicolored mass of various details and the cognitive complexity of these children is the same that farming requires the development of certain stereotypical actions, stereotyped actions with strict order, and therefore these children are often raised in a rather authoritarian manner; authoritarian upbringing leads to a low cognitive style and, on the contrary, Eskimo hunters live. It would seem that they live in a completely homogeneous environment among white snow.