本论文以“独立”和“互立”这两个认知心理学概念为基础,探讨华裔美国作家任璧莲及其作品人物的认知模式发展过程。在“独立/互立光谱带”上,任璧莲经历了从“互立”端走向“独立”端再向中间移动的过程。任璧莲的小说创作总体上反映了不同阶段的人对“独立”与“互立”模式的需求变化的轨迹,这种变化不只针对某一个族裔,而是适用于所有人。 Based on the two concepts of “cognitive independence” and “independence”, this thesis explores the cognitive process of Chinese American writer Ren Bilian and his works. On the “Independent / Mutual Spectra”, Ren has undergone a process of moving from “mutual independence” to “independence” and then to the middle. Ren Bi-lin’s novel creation generally reflects the different stages of people’s demand for “independent” and “mutualistic” model of change in demand, this change not only for a particular ethnicity, but for all.