PSY 307 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Social Rejection, Procedural Knowledge, Nomothetic
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Modern research on personality processes has historical roots in the learning and phenomenological theories. But also includes elements of the psychodynamic and trait approaches. Concepts may readily come to mind because they have been primed through experience. Or because of one"s temperament, personality, or biology. Patterns of priming are relevant to behavioral patterns such as rejection sensitivity and aggression. And to the flexible worldviews of bicultural individuals. Experimental demonstrations of perceptual defense indicate that people can. Screen potentially embarrassing or disturbing stimuli out of awareness. Some people, such as those who are shy, maybe overly vigilant in certain domains of their lives. Because their systems of perceptual defense do not work well enough. Consciousness can be equated with short-term memory (stm) Has a capacity of seven chunks of information, plus or minus two. The limited capacity of consciousness implies that: Consciously attending to constructive thoughts is important. Much of thinking occurs outside conscious awareness.
