PSYB30H3 Chapter 8: chapter 8 Textbook Notes
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Social-cognitive approaches to personality human beings are complex information-processing systems that operate in social environments. A person is motivated to predict or anticipate what will happen to him or her. Kelly views anxiety as the recognition that the events w/ which one is confronted lie outside the range of convenience of one"s construct system www. notesolution. com. Core role structure the construction a person has of who they are in relation to significant people, such as parents. Guilt is the perception that one is no longer living according to one"s personal-construct system. A general dimension of cognitive style ranging from highly analytical and differentiated processing of information (field-independence) to highly contextual and global processing (field-dependence) Tilted chair/room witkin: field-dependent, people who use room as the reference for their adjustment, perception and judgment of perpendicularity depend on the. Field, or environment: field-independent, people who bypass the field and make their perception and judgment according to inner cues www. notesolution. com.
