PSY 321 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Age 13, Extraversion And Introversion, Procedural Knowledge

• School: University at Buffalo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 321
• Professor: Erica Nuss

Document Summary

Personality processes: perception, thought, motivation and emotion: the historical roots of research into personality processes, personality process: it is a sequence of steps through which a personality trait produces an outcome. People with different traits see the world differently. Concepts that have been activated recently, perhaps cued by something that happened today, or that are consistently activated, perhaps due to an attribute of the individual"s personality, come to mind quickly. Need to slow down and think more deliberately. Perceiver effect: people with generally positive views of others are more accurate in their person perceptions, less aggressive, friendlier; inborn patterns of individual temperament. Defense mechanism exist to protect the person from feeling too much anxiety. Chunks: any piece of information that can be thought of as a unit. 7 random numbers are 7 chunks, but phone number is 1: stm and thinking. Funder"s 5th law: the purpose of education is to assemble new chunks.