PSYC 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Walter Mischel, Conscientiousness, Offender Profiling

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 203
• Professor: Mark Holden

Document Summary

Set difficult, but realistic goals (attainable: moderately-difficult goals motivate (sense of accomplishment), but also give hope of success. Set performance goals (not outcome goals: performance goals keep focus on the behaviours necessary to achieve the goal, measure progress. "get a 95% in psyc" vs, "outline lecture notes twice a week" "get better at x" is better than "stop failing" St goals can be sub-goals, leading to the lt goal. "consistency paradox": people are consistently inconsistent: mischel"s cognitive-affective personality system, both the person and the situation interact to determine behaviour, personality is relatively stable, but situations change - situations cause. "inconsistencies: people are consistent in a different way . If then behaviour consistencies: behaviour is consistent across similar situations: evaluating social-cognitive approach, highly scientific approach: compared with other approaches, can easily define and measure constructs, produce causal conclusions, combines different approaches: behavioural and cognitive (major) Self-actualization: realizing one"s full potential; best version of oneself.