Functional-relations typology: logical, pragmatic, and pure consonance, with dissonance as a post-functional unstable state¶

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Description¶

The paper translates Festinger's system of cognitive relations into functional terms, defining types of consonance among neuronal elements. Logical consonance means activation of one element always leads to activation of another; pragmatic and pure consonance are multiple-source dependent, requiring contributions from other sources. The authors argue "disson4ndeis a post-functional phenomenon", arising only when elements compete for simultaneous functioning, and that "Multiple-Source dependence inevitably results,at some time or other,in dissonance".

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Multiple-source dependence: activation of the second element must depend on sources of initiation other than the first element in pragmatic and pure consonance

Constraints¶

• The authors state conflicting situations would simply not arise in a single-source functional system

Target Learners¶

• adult readers and cognitive theorists

Target Learning Objectives¶

• understanding functional relations among cognitive elements, including dissonance and conflict

Claims¶

Related Theories¶

• The schema-of-the-moment: cognition as a transient functional organization of simultaneously active neuronal elements

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Key Sources¶

• Iran-Nejad, Asghar & Ortony, Andrew. (1982). Cognition: A Functional View. Center for the Study of Reading, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED215308