PSYB30H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Indo, Field Dependence, Longitudinal Study
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Chapter 8 - self and others: social cognitive aspects of personality. Social cognitive approaches to personality psychology begin with the assumption that human beings are complex information-processing systems that operate in social environments. Social-cognitive approaches to personality focus on how people make and use mental representations of themselves, of others, and of their social worlds and how those representations are implicated in social behavior. Cognition influences social behavior and social behavior influences cognition. An essential domain of psychological individuality is the social-cognitive representations that people create. Person is motivated to predict or anticipate what will happen to him of her. According to kelly each of us classifies his or her world by developing personal constructs which are characteristic ways of construing how come things are alike and some things are different from one another. Every construct is bipolar, specifying how 2 things are similar to each other and different from a third thing.
