PSC 162 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Social Rejection, Nomothetic, Procedural Knowledge
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The major personality processes include perception, thought, motivation, & emotion. The historical roots of research into personality processes. Modern research on personality processes has historical roots in the learning & phenomenological theories, but also includes elements of the psychodynamic & trait approaches. Concepts may readily come to mind because they have been primed through experience or because of one"s temperament, personality, or biology. Patterns of priming are relevant to behavioral patterns such as rejection sensitivity & aggression, & to the flexible worldviews of bicultural individuals. Experimental demonstrations of perceptual defense indicate that people can screen potentially embarrassing or disturbing stimuli out of awareness. Some people, such as those who are shy, may be overly vigilant in certain domains of their lives because their systems of perceptual defense do not work well enough. Consciousness can be equated with short - term memory (stm), & has a capacity of 7 chunks of info, plus or minus 2.
