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The Cognitive Process – Successful Cross-Cultural Communication

Ways of Thinking: The Cognitive Process

Every message is “encoded” and “decoded” around seven main areas of human experience. Let’s look at “The Cognitive Process” which is the way people think.

Three major thinking patterns;

  • Conceptual = postulate thinking; abstract; inclined toward inductive logic (linear)
  • Psychical (psychological) = intuitive; instinctual; emotive; inclined toward being alogical.
  • Concrete relational = object oriented; applicative; inclined toward deductive logic (cyclical).

Feel free to comment on this post with any points / counter-points, questions, or illustrations.

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2 Responses to “The Cognitive Process – Successful Cross-Cultural Communication”

  1. Jonathan Kroner, JD, MBA Says:
    December 9th, 2008 at 11:25 pm

    Are there any online sources that map cultures into a 3-D graph of conceptual, psychological and concrete thought processes?

    Great site/blog, thank you.

  2. Steve Says:
    December 10th, 2008 at 2:03 am

    I’m not sure, I’ll have to do some digging around, I’m sure that would be a great way to help people understand the general patterns that should be used when communicating cross culturally with people from various cultures / thinking patterns.

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