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43 Cards in this Set
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What does Gesulat Psychology believe? |
we go beyond what is there to make sense out of the world |
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What are personal constructs? |
mental representations used to interpret events |
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What is associated with George Kelly? |
personal constructs |
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What is definition? |
applying a construct in a familiar way to an event it's very likely to fit |
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What is extension? |
using a construct to predict or construe an event it hasn't been applied to before |
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What is definition used for? |
confirm and fine-tune |
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Kelly's views on individuality? |
each person creates a unique construct system |
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What are core constructs? |
constructs basic to a person's functioning that can only be changed with great consequence for the rest of the construct system |
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What are peripheral constructs? |
less basic constructs that can be altered without serious modification of the core structure |
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What is behavioral consistency? |
people behave similarly to different situations to the degree that the situations are construed in similar ways |
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2 kinds of cognition |
1. Automatic 2. Controlled |
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Automatic cognition is ____ |
intuition |
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Controlled cognition is ____ |
effortful |
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Advantage of automatic cognition |
save cognitive resources for other things |
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Disadvantage of automatic cognition |
become over-reliant on automatic processes and don't give them enough attention |
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3 ways we organize |
1. schemas 2. exemplar 3. prototype |
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Define: Schemas |
mental organization of information/ a category |
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Define: Exemplar |
a specific example of a category member |
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Define: Prototype |
the representation of a category in terms of "best member" of the category |
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Something can be accessible for 3 reasons |
1. due to past experience 2. related to a current goal 3. because of our recent experiences |
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What does the self consist of? |
the Me and the I |
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What is the "me", according to James? |
the known |
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What is the "I", according to James? |
the unknown |
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What is the "me", according to modern psychologists? |
self-concept |
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What is the "I" according to modern psychologists? |
self-awareness and self-regulation |
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What are self-schemas? |
schematic representations of the self |
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What are 3 characteristics of self-schemas? |
1.facilitate coding of new info. 2. influence what info. is remembered 3. can be self perpetuating |
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What are possible selves? |
the images we have/construct of the other possible ways me might be |
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Define: actual self
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who you currently are |
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Define: ideal self |
What you could be at your best |
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Define: ought self |
what you should be |
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What are the effects of discrepancies in the ideal self? |
disappointment and sadness |
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What are the effects of discrepancies in the ought self? |
anxiety and agitation |
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Define: entity views |
abilities seen as unchanging |
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What is the goal of task performance according to the entity view? |
prove ability |
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Define: incremental views |
abilities can be changed |
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2 views of implicit theories |
1. entity views 2. incremental views |
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What is the goal of task performance according to the incremental view? |
extend ability |
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Define: differentation |
personality is expressed in different ways in different situations |
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Define: intergration |
reduce inconsistencies and contradictions |
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What is self-complexity? |
number of independent roles |
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Define: self-esteem |
the degree to which one values oneself |
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3 drawbacks of low self-esteem
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1. set low goals 2. self-handicap 3. disregard positive feedback and ignore positive feedback |
