PSY 305 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, Repertory Grid
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We tend to perceive the world in the same way across situations (glass half empty/full) Personality di erences= di erences in ways people process information. Personal constructs- cognitive structures used to predict and interpret experiences, dichotomous (ex. friendly v. unfriendly) each relevant and applicable to certain situations new constructs are constantly created to replace old ones, when old constructs fail us. Schemas- cognitive structures that help us perceive and process information, mental short cues, helps attend to important and ignore the unimportant relatively stable. Self-schema- cognitive representations of ourselves that we use to organize and process self-relevant information. Man the scientist- constantly generating hypotheses and testing them. The past does not determine behavior anxiety- personal constructs fail to predict and make sense of our experiences. Possibile selves- cognitive representation of who we might become someday (current and future self) functions: Actual self- contains all the information you have about the kind of person you are (or you believe you are)
