PSYC 332 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Episodic Memory, Social Intelligence, Descriptive Knowledge
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Chapter 8 self and other: social-cognitive aspects of personality (characteristic adaptation review: Psychological individuality that are contextualized in time, place, and/or social role. Details include: motives (e. g. implicit motives, self-discrepancies) Mcclelland"s needs for achievement, power & intimacy (e. g. goals, personal constructs, mental representations, schemas, possible: social-cognition selves, value and exhibition of virtues, etc. , developmental. The key to understanding personality coherence is social intelligence (cantor & kihlstrom) Social intelligence is stored in memory as organized knowledge, and which forms the structural basis for personality. Each person brings a set of skills, abilities, and knowledge to every social situation. Characteristic of intelligence = lawful intraindividual variability, especially across situation . Intelligent action is flexible (rather than reflexive or rigid), discriminative (rather than indiscriminate), optional (rather than obligatory) People differ in social intelligence: people use their social intelligence in different ways to interpret and solve current tasks and problems in life. Social interaction involves problem solving, problems call for socially intelligent behaviour.