PSYC 231 Study Guide - Historical Determinism, Repertory Grid

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 231
• Professor: Angela Howell- Moneta

Document Summary

Cognitive approach: the ways in which people come to know their environment and themselves. Perceive, evaluate, learn, think, make decisions, and solve problems. Do not find needs, drives, or emotions as separate activities of the personality they are aspects controlled by the cognitive processes. Personal construct theory: we are capable of interpreting behaviours and events and of using this understanding to guide our behaviour and to predict the behaviour of other people. To understand personality, we must first understand our patterns, the way we organize or construct the world. Denied the behavioural and psychoanalytic approaches denied human ability to take charge of our lives, make our own decisions, and pursue our chosen course of action. Construct: an intellectual hypothesis that we devise and use to interpret or explain life events. Constructive alternativism: the idea that we are free to revise or replace our constructs if needed. Theory organized into a fundamental postulate and 11 corollaries.