PSY 313 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Surgency, David Buss, Personal Construct Theory
6 Apr 2017
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Urgency predicts increases in expectancies for reinforcement from drinking, which predicts drinking urgency predicts increases in expectancies for reinforcement from smoking, which predicts smoking. 1. there is no reality or absolute truth. 2. instead, there are efforts to construe events- efforts to interpret phenomena in order to make sense of them. 3. there are always alternative constructions to events. Wednesday, april 5, 2017 (6) sophisticated-naive (7) happy-sad (8) stimulating-boring: what is the role construct repertory test? (rep test) What is a self-schema: cognitive representations of ourselves that help organize our sense of self. B. the behaviors, attributes, and attitudes that you see as important to you. 1. relationship between self-schema and behavior: have some evidence that self-schemas guide behaviors, we"re more likely to do things if we have de ned those things as central to who we are. Iv. what are possible selves? (ex: cognitions about who we are now and our future selves.
