PSYCH356 Lecture 8: PSYCH 356 Lecture 8: PSYCH 356: Lecture 8 Social-Cognitive Approaches

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH356
• Professor: Richard Eibach

Document Summary

Personality as a cognitive-affective processing system (caps) Stable individual differences in situation-behaviour profiles arise from that in chronic accessibility of cognitive/affective mechanisms that determine how individuals attend to, cognitively/emotionally encode, and behaviourally respond to specific situational triggers. Behavioural responses are rooted in biological temperament and social learning. They have feedback effects that reinforce and stabilize their patterns of processing and responding to situations. Example of a cognitive-affective processing network: rejection-sensitivity. Some individuals have a greater expectation of rejection and greater concern about rejection than others. A higher rsq (rejection-sensitivity questionnaire) score predicts chronic attentiveness (neuroticism) and chronic emotional reactivity to rejection cues. Rejection can lead to aggression in high rsq scoring individuals.