PSY 351 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Takers, Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, Template Matching
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Cognitive approach explains differences in personality as differences in the way people process information. Lewin described the mental representations we form of the important elements in our lives and how we organize those cognitive elements within our life space. Man-the-scientist perspective - kelly"s approach to personality begins with a unique conception of humankind. People constantly generate and test hypothesis about their world. We all want to predict and control as many events in our lives as possible. Template matching - our ideas about the world are similar to templates that we place over the events we encounter. Personal constructs - bipolar cognitive structures through which people process information. Bipolar - classify relevant objects in an either/or fashion within our constructs. Relatively stable patterns in our behavior are the result of the relatively stable way we construe the world. People differ in the way they organize their constructs. Kelly rejected the notion that psychological disorders are caused by past traumatic experiences.
