• ARTICLES, Special Section, XVIIth International Congress on PCP Australia July 2007

Musing about constructs.

Green, B.

Keywords:
Construing, expectancies, implicit cognition, habit

Abstract:
Construing has not received the attention in the literature that has been directed toward identifying and describing constructs. It is proposed that Personal Construct Theory (PCT) could benefit from elaborating the notion of construing through consideration of established concepts from other fields. Using substance use as an example, the concepts of outcome expectancies, implicit cognition and habit are examined, as a means to elaborate the notion of construing. A link between these concepts is the pervasiveness of non-conscious cognition. As PCT is often described as a cognitive theory it is instructive to also consider the contribution of non-deliberative processes to construing.