PSY 393 Lecture Notes - Walter Mischel, Mental Chronometry
10 Sep 2014
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Cognitive approach: studies how we perceive the world and how this perception shapes who we are, main themes, personality processes. Goal-directed behavior: self, what you know about you . Schemas: definition, mental structure of knowledge (textbook, cognitive structure that organizes information. Helps us make sense of the multiple stimuli we encounter. Helps us perceive, organize, process and use the information in our environments: effects of schemas, understanding & remembering. Normal information = depends on schema: allows for individual schemas, self-schemas, definition. Includes all of ones ideas about the self: measurement. Recently activated: something that just happened to you will ready you respond to your environment. Chronically activated: become part of your own cognitive system. Genetically predisposed because of evolutionary benefit: chronic accessibility: where from, evolutionary reasons, innate temperament, experience. Individual differences and chronic accessibility: rejection sensitivity. Individuals who constantly are stimulated to scan their environments for impending rejection.
