| Summary: | "This book presents a study that tests several principles of cognitive consistency and to explore relationships between them. The authors are testing six principles defined in earlier studies: the leveling-sharpening control principle; the control principle of tolerance for unrealistic experiences; the equivalence range control principle; the focusing control principle; the constricted-flexible control principle; and field dependence-independence. The premise of this work has been that the wide range of behaviors with which an individual encounters reality may be encompassed by relatively few dimensions of organization. Presumably, these dimensions concern modes of coping with particular situational frameworks of task, stimulus-constraints, and intentions for which the modes are especially relevant and suited. They manifest themselves through perceptual, recollective, and other functions. To emphasize their orientation toward reality and environmental structures, we have thought of such organizing tendencies as adaptive controls, and of their behavioral consequences as adaptive solutions. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)"--Book.
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