Psychology 2550A/B Chapter 7: Chapter 7 Social Cognitive Aspects of Personality.docx

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2550A/B
• Professor: Catharine Hondzel

Document Summary

Chapter 7: cognitive and social-cognitive aspects of personality. We often experience things that are not a part of our simple sensations: we perceive things beyond our sensations to find close connections. It is tempting to assume all perceptual situations consist of independent components, but by doing that, we ignore the whole picture: we look for continuity. Psychologists then look for pragnanz or the expectation and depth in meaning. Wertheimer apparent motion, seeing it as a whole, we make that up in our minds; Central tenets of this theory: humans seek meaning in their environment, we organize the sensations we receive from the world into meaningful, complex stimuli aren"t reducible to the sum of their parts. We are pattern seeking good at noticing them, especially w/ perceptions behavior original. The configuration of a complex stimulus is its essence: component elements of a stimulus can not be added up to re-create the.