PSY 368 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Jean Piaget, Developmental Psychology, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

• School: University of Arizona
• Department: Psychology Main
• Course: PSY 368
• Professor: Adam Lazarewicz

Document Summary

Cognition plays an important role in behavior change cognition: information-processing. People = active participants in navigating experiences. Evaluate and understand these experiences by using schemas schema: framework of information about something. Cognition/schemas emotional, behavioral effects: anxiety in social situations. What would it mean to be embarrassed, stand out from crowd, etc. ? (judgment of these behaviors = cognition!) How likely is it that i will do one of these embarrassing things? (expectations = cognition!: cognitions anxiety and stress behavioral change. E. g. terrorism: damage to schemas about safety, security, new information all-or-nothing, catastrophic terms sense of helplessness, inability to stop focusing on threat (rumination) Beck influenced by jean piaget (developmental psychologist) children as active thinkers, engaged in the surrounding world. Schema development assimilation: incorporating new experiences into existing schemas accommodation: altering existing schemas to incorporate new information. (picture of tractor) wheels, engine, people ride them (cid:498)car(cid:499) (picture of car) wheels, engine, people ride them, used on streets (cid:498)car(cid:499)