PSYB30H3 Chapter 8: chapter 8 detailed noted

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Chapter 8: self and other: social-cognitive aspects of personality. What book did george kelly write that took. According to kelly, each of us classifies his or her world by developing. Theories and conceptions of personality that emphasize the extent to which human beings are information-processing systems who use schemas, beliefs, values, expectancies, and other cognitive constructs to guide their behaviour in the social world. *cognition influence social behaviour , and social behaviour influences cognition* Our perceptions and impressions of others, which shape and are shaped by our perceptions and impressions of ourselves. 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. the person is like a scientist, seeking to predict and control. Personal construct: a characteristic way of construing how some things are alike an some things are different from each other.