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Integrative Theory

Personality and Learning

The Rissman Trilog and the Experiential Learning Cycle

Pages 153-158
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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G. Kelly's model of learning proposes a disruption, re-processing, and re-ordering of an individual's personal universe as new data are incorporated. Kolb's learning cycle identifies 4 steps in learning: reflecting, patterning, experimenting, and accepting. The Trilog (A. Rissman) provides a model of ego state collaboration, and is useful in clarifying contributions of ego states to the steps in learning. Patterns of specific collaboration between ego states is used to analyze impact on the learning processes of seeking for alternatives, formation of compromises, and the establishment of judgements. The relative ease of collaboration between ego states is considered, and the relevance of this to the learning process explored. A Learning Hexagon is presented to depict the relationships of varieties of ego state collaboration.

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M.F. Woods

Dr. M.F. Woods, PhD, teaches at the University of Bradford Management Centre, Bradford, England.