PSYB30H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Cognitive Restructuring, Philip E. Tetlock, Personal Construct Theory
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Social-cognitive approaches to personality psychology begins with the assumption that human beings are complex information-processing systems that operate in social environments. Social-cognitive approaches to personality focus on how people make use mental representations of themselves, of others, and of their social worlds and how those representations are implicated in social behavior. People formulate images, concepts, beliefs, values, plans, and expectations that govern what they do, and what they do comes to influence the nature of these mental representations. Put simply, cognition influences social behavior, and social behavior influences cognition. People differ with respect to the kinds of self-representations and social construals they formulate and act upon thus, an essential domain of psychological individuality is the social-cognitive representations that people create. George kelly wrote the psychology of personal constructs introduced terms such as personal construct, range of convenience, fixed-role therapy, and rep test.
