COM 225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Personal Construct Theory
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What was the point of this experiment? (pp. Langer had a group of older men live as if they were 20 years old again for about a week. By the end of the experiment, the elderly men showed improvements in haring and memory. This shows, as said in the book, we live in the world as we perceive it. Researchers have found that memories" show as much of our present condition as it does our past condition. Fabricating memories comes from piecing together images of events that have occurred to us: what are schemata and why are they useful? (pp. Schemata are cognitive structures that we use to make sense of the world. They are useful because they help us make sense of the world: the authors describe 8 kinds of schemata. Person prototype is a mental category we use to classify and label others: what is a role schema? (pp.
