PSYC370 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Pessimism, Agreeableness, Procedural Knowledge
11 Jan 2017
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Chapter 16: personality processes: perception, thought, motivation, and emotion. Personality processes: the mechanisms that unfold over time to produce the effects of personality traits. The historical roots of research into personality processes. George kelly"s: how individual"s concepts for timing about the world shape. People with different traits see the world differently effect how they react. Can interrupt the process and avoid the bad outcome personality and behavior to an event. People view the world differently to the extent of sensory perceptions. Situational priming fades, but the concepts that are constantly primed and re-primed because of their chronic accessibility become part of our personalities. Genetically primed: perception of whether someone is a male or female; Perceiver effect: individual"s characteristically see other people in: tendency to experience positive emotions happy thoughts are. Differences may come from inborn patterns of individual temperament. Bicultural individuals may perceive a situation based on which culture was recently primed.
