The functions of thinking as a basic personality change process

Abstract

The tendency to identify with the social and natural environment in which people live, their symbolic needs and the desire for belonging, safety and emotional support, are in the foreground. The evolution of knowledge will depend only on the fundamental premises of personality change. That is precisely why the instructive and educational processes are called to create as many and more developed this structuring and functionality of thinking directed towards change. Therefore, from the functional point of view of the role that thinking plays in the dynamics of personality, it is a specific way of relational life, a specific exchange between the organism and the environment. The fundamental result of this process is the knowledge of reality and, as a result, increasing the adaptability of the human being to everything he feels and wants. The attitude towards the world in general is a good indicator of the respect we have for the ability to intend in this world the perfection of human activity and existence.