PSYB30H3 Chapter 8: Chapter 8 Notes
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Self and other: social- cognitive aspects of personality. One of a computer"s biggest impact on psychology is the metaphor is provides us with. Social cognitive approaches to personality psychology begin with the assumption that human beings are complex information- processing systems that operate in social environments. Saw the person as a scientist seeking to predict, control, and explain the social world. A person is motivated to predict or anticipate what will happen to him or her . Person acts because they are alive; act by virtue of being alive. Science begins when the observer seeks to make initial sense of the world by imposing some kind of organization upon it. Each of us classifies our world by developing personal constructs: characteristic ways of construing how some things are alike and some things are different from one another. Every construct is bipolar: have two opposite poles. Each person develops their constructs in a hierarchy: organization corollary.
