PSYC 332 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Mindset, Shyness, Domain Specificity
29 Apr 2013
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Most of her work has focused on what children"s theories are on their own abilities and intelligence. She finds that if we ask children whether their intelligence is stable, fixed or malleable, changeable, half the kids say changeable and other half say not changeable. Whole set of emotional, cognitive and behavioral responses that are associated with one belief and other belief. The role of beliefs in personality and change the premise. Much of personality (besides the big 5 traits) is a flexible and dynamic thing that changes over the lifespan and is shaped by experience. What is more, we are beginning to understand how to change it. I focus on core beliefs or belief systems that can organize and shape people"s goals and strivings, as well as their construal and reactions to the environment, to create consistent patterns of experience and actions. Shyness: an affective-behavioral syndrome characterized by social anxiety and interpersonal inhibition that results from prospect of interpersonal evaluation.
