Cognitive Complexity and the predictive theory that is "Constructivism"

Now that we are past the introduction, I would like to explain to you guys what the theme of my blog will illustrate; “Purposeful Communication”.  Communicating with other human individuals is what makes OUR world go round.  Truly, it’s how we meet our future husbands/wives, climb the corporate ladder, or even discuss politics with our friends.  Indeed it is important, but only if it is used purposefully.  Thus, a person usually needs some form of education to purposefully communicate while striving for their desired goals relative to communicating with other individuals.  In essence, a person needs a well-developed, complex, and open mind; a person with this kind of mindset has “Cognitive Complexity”.  A person having cognitive complexity has the ability to distinguish subtle personality and behavioral differences among people.  Simply, they have outstanding social perception skills, or rather, the ability to craft person-centered messages in the appropriate contexts and manner.  With cognitive complexity, we have the ability to predict and adjust our responses and communication dependent upon the progression of a conversation.  Being able to distinguish personality and behavioral differences among different people gives an anticipatory factor to preemptively mold where we want to take the conversation.  Now, theoretically speaking, a person’s ability to communicate skillfully in social situations is called “Constructivism”.  Constructivism is a predictive theory that increases with age and education.  To demonstrate cognitive complexity, within the framework of Constructivism, here is a clip of James Bond in Casino Royale.  Please pause and take the time to read the notes on the screen during the short video. (Note* James Bond, having superior cognitive complexity/communication skills, will progressively help to demonstrate the themes and theories of my blog as we dig deeper into Purposeful Communication)

Firstly, I hope you enjoyed the short video and caught all the sharp and quick demonstrations of Constructivism that James Bond skillfully portrayed.  Having never conversed with the female individual, James Bond is oblivious to her personal constructs.  Yet, he is quick to distinguish her personality and behavioral differences and slowly adjusts the conversation to where he wants it to go, through the use of anticipatory-centered-messages and effective body language (00:53-2:30).  However, being educated and female, she wittily equals Bond, maybe even one-upping Bond, in the same way by judging his personal constructs through the use of her Cognitive Complexity (2:30-4:10)...  Note to self, females tend to have higher Cognitive Complexity.

Now, here is a diagram to help you with Constructivism and Cognitive Complexity:

Cognitive Complexity à Sophisticated message plan (or predictive/anticipatory message planning) à  Relaying person-centered messages (in one’s desired context to attain goals for the conversation) à Successful communication (once goals have been attained or certainly reached).