PSYC 333 Midterm: Midterm 2 Lecture Notes P1.pdf

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 333
• Professor: Jennifer Bartz

Document Summary

Cognitive-affective system theory of personality (caps) - mischel, shoda & wright: 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 psychologically construe the situation, we can determine more regularities in the child"s behaviour. 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. Situation: if peer positive contact : there are speci c if-then contingencies that develop for these kids, correlation between pro-social talk within situations involving peer positive contact is much higher than just looking at correlation across all ve situations. Cogni>ve@a ec>ve: how we regulate ourselves using scripts, strategies for organizing action/affecting outcomes. Cognitive-affective personality system: all our cognitive affective mediating units are interrelated, different scenarios will activate different mediating units for the individual.