PSY 260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Horoscope, Hazel Rose Markus, Mary Ainsworth
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A life story: the way a person represents the drama of his or her life. A relationship pattern: the patterns a person uses in interacting with others. Other key characteristics (mostly) learned and applied some may have a genetic basis-prepared fears (ex: fear of snakes) often however they are learned (ex: seat belts) Possible selves distinguish between groups with similar self-esteem but very different social profiles (ex: college students and delinquents) Possible selves distinguish between groups with similar situations but different outcomes (ex: poor versus good recovery from death of spouse) First, researches identified adjectives highly, moderately, and not related to extroversion. Cantor and mischel"s hypothesis: people will store info for jane according to an extrovert schema. Procedure: participants learned lists describing four fictional target people. (instructions: i would like you to view these slides and try to remember the personality characteristics ) Vj was a thoughtful child, raised in a close family by caring parents.