PSYCH-220 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Psychoanalysis, Gordon Allport
30 Sep 2020
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Chapter 15: personality processes: perception, thought, motivation, and emotion: here. On final exam sampled from class lectures ** Personality processes = mechanisms that unfold over time to produce the effects of personality traits. Current research on personality processes stems from learning-based approaches: evaluation, and decision making. Rotter, bandura, mischel: focused on cognitive processes such as interpretation, Rotter emphasized how beliefs about the environment can determine expectations. Bandura emphasized how beliefs about yourself set expectations of own. Mischel added list of person variables, which refer to cognitive processes that capabilities which also influence what you attempt to do about the results of different behaviours determine if then patterns of people"s responses to various situations. George kelly: emphasized way an individual"s concepts for thinking (personal constructs) shape personality and behaviour. Within us, competing psychological subsystems need to seek compromise. Brain-damage studies hint at how representations of the self may be organized in the brain.
