PSYC 332 Chapter Notes -Explanatory Style, Mary Main, Attachment In Adults

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 332
• Professor: Richard Koestner

Document Summary

We perform operations on the information: manipulating it and using it according to the complex software of the human mind, the ultimate output of this activity is human behavior. Human beings process information in order to act. Our perceptions, impressions, inferences, judgments, and memories eventually in uence what we do: psychology begin with the assumption that human beings are complex information-processing systems that operate in social environments. Kelly"s radical dismissal of the concept of motivation is really only partial for his theory implies a fundamental principle of motivation itself: a person is motivated to predict or anticipate what will happen to him or her. What moves people to act is their desire to know what the world has in store for them. Fundamental postulate: a person"s processes are psychologically channelized by the ways in which he or she anticipates events. Construction corollary: a person anticipates events by construing their replications.