FRHD 2110 Lecture Notes - Attribution Bias, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Metacognition
15 Apr 2013
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The cognitive approach emphasizes what a person does how events perceived, expectations formed every day. Constructs: psychologically meaningful cognitive categories unique and personal. Bipolar more accessible end = emergent pole; other end = implicit pole. 2 ends also known as likeness pole and contrast pole. Implicit pole may sometimes become submerged: person becomes cognitively preoccupied/obsessed with theme reflecting emergent pole of construct. Constructs also differ in extent accessible to conscious awareness. Preverbal constructs: subconscious cognitive categories likely involved in tip-of-tongue phenomenon that occurs when you almost but cannot quite put something into words also known as construing. Submerged constructs: one or both ends of construct not available for conscious reflection/verbalization. Suspended constructs: previously accessible construct now forgotten b/c of current events similar to repression. Kelly used metaphor each person is a scientist who is motivated to make as much sense as possible out of life events . 3 conditions undermine ability to form new constructs:
