PSYC 2740 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Personal Construct Theory, Major Depressive Disorder, Learned Helplessness
14 Apr 2013
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Cognition: is a general term referring to awareness and thinking, as well as to specific, mental acts such as perceiving, attending to, interpreting, remembering, believing, judging, deciding and anticipating: personalizing cognition: they relate more to personal experiences. View things through their own views: objectifying cognition: tell it like it is. Information processing: the transformation of sensory input into mental representations and the manipulation of such representations. There are 3 levels of cognition: perception: The process of imposing order on the information our sense organs take in. Two people can look at the same situation and actually see different things: interpretation: The making sense of, or explaining, various events in the world. You hit a hit a curb and accidently scratch up your car. You quickly give your interpretation of the event: conscious goals. The standards that people develop for evaluating themselves and others. People develop specific beliefs about what is important in life and which tasks are appropriate to pursue.
