PSYC 333 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Cortisol, Ob River, White Noise
11 Mar 2013
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Interpersonal situations: mischel says to focus on psychological meaning, we need to understand interpersonal situations, how each child behaves in each of the following situation. Understanding how these children psy- chologically construe the situation, we can determine more regularities in the child"s behaviour: peer approaches, peer teases, adult praises, adult warns, adult punishes. The blue bars indicate within situations in which peer teased, to what extent is verbal aggressive behaviour correlated across those situations: helps prove mischel"s behaviour, there are specific if-then contingencies that develop for these kids. Situation: if peer positive contact : correlation between pro-social talk within situations involving peer positive contact is much higher than just looking at correlation across all five situations. Cognitive-affective personality system: all our cognitive affective mediating units are interrelated, different scenarios will activate different mediating units for the individual. Pleasant) stimulus: startle response measured as ps viewed scenes reflecting rejection, acceptance , showed paintings and measured response with white noise present.
