CMM 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Assertiveness, Cognitive Restructuring
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A few more aspects of personality that makes a difference in how we communicate. Those unwilling to communicate: suffer lower on the job rating, are evaluated lower than others on many things, get poorer recommendation letters, take long breaks to avoid talking. Therapies: systematic desensitization-snakes, cognitive re-structuring, skill training. A few other personality traits: hostility, verbal aggressiveness, argumentativeness, humor orientation, assertiveness, affective orientation. How we make sense of the world. 3 processes of perception: selection, organization, interpretation. Selectivity in perception: how can we reduce information? via, selectivity, attention, memory, exposure. Memory: a lot of memory is constantly under construction. Loftus memory research: loftus on brian williams, she has compared the human memory to something more akin to a wikipedia page, in that your able to make edits and so can other people, to your own memories. Organizing stimuli using schemas: prototypes, stereotypes, interpersonal constructs, schemas.