Chapter 12, 13, 19-cognitive/experimental domain and health

Question 1

Personalization cognition

Answer 1

when a scene prompts a person to recall a similar event from his own life

Question 2

Objectifying cognition

Answer 2

When a scene prompts a person to recall objective facts about what he or she is seeing

Question 3

Cognition

Answer 3

General term referring to awareness and thinking

Question 4

Three levels of cognition that are in particular interest to personality psychologists

Answer 4

1. Perception
2. Interpretation
3. Conscious goals

Question 5

Rod and frame test (RFT)

Answer 5

apparatus to investigate individual differences

Question 6

Reducer/augmenter theory

Answer 6

people with low pain tolerance had a nervous system that augmented the impact of sensory cues, whereas people who could tolerate pain well were thought to have a nervous system that reduced the effect of sensory stimulation

Question 7

personal constructs

Answer 7

the constructs a person routinely uses to interpret and predict events; no, two people do not have the same personal construct system

Question 8

postmodernism

Answer 8

an intellectual position grounded in the notion that reality is constructed

Question 9

fundamental postulate

Answer 9

Kelly- all our processes (thoughts, behaviors, feelings) are shaped by what we anticipate

Question 10

Locus of control

Answer 10

A concept that describes a person’s perception of responsibility for the events in his or her life, internally or externally

Question 11

Social cognition

Answer 11

How humans process information to other people; consists of many different cognitive processes that we need for social interaction