PSY 0160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Mental Chronometry, Cognitive Therapy
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Personality ch 13 social-cognitive theory: applications, related theoretical conceptions and. People"s beliefs about the self and the world. The ealuative standards that people use to judge the goodness or worth of their own actions and those of others. These cognitions=socially acquired and enduring and thus contributed to enduring and consistent patterns of behavior. Self-referent beliefs essential are central to personality functioning. Events elicit emotional response when seen as relevant to our sense of self. Schemas: structures of the mind that we use to make sense of the world around us. We also have self-schemas, general knowledge about ourselves and how we interact with the world. Reaction time measures: record content of responses and how quickly respond to see how strongly they feel the answer to that question is true or related to yourself. Once we have developed ways of thinking about ourselves, there is a strong tendency for them to be maintained.
