p1 - topic 8: cognitive model

Question 1

steps of mischel cognitive personality model

Answer 1

subjective benefit of the behaviour
competence
expectancies
self-regulating systems
coding

Question 2

why are schemas adaptive?

Answer 2

can predict thoughts and direction of them and consequent behaviour

Question 3

why it’s useful that schemas are adaptive?

Answer 3

you can make better decisions, you will be better at adaptation
schematic thoughts don’t contain every aspect of the info, rather a structure
helps the world be more predictable

Question 4

assimilation vs accommodation

Question 5

i vs me schema

Answer 5

i: active part of the self, reflective, thinking
1. as we have learnt to do
2. using our own valuing processes
me: reflective part of the self
1. competence
2. evaluation of important others

Question 6

totalitarian ego (greenwald)

Answer 6

3 system distortions as every person views the world differently
1. egocentricity
2, beneffectance
3. cognitive conservation (conformation error, memory rewriting)

Question 7

positive illusions

Answer 7

• unrealistic positive view of the self
• illusion of control
• optimism bias

Question 8

multiple selves

Answer 8

william james
1. material self
2. social self
3. spiritual self

Question 9

greenwald and pratkanis layers of self

Answer 9

• diffuse self
• public self
• personal self
• collective self

Question 10

higgins - self discrepancy theory

Answer 10

real self (aspects we posses)
ideal self (aspects we would like to posses)
expected self (aspects which we think are expected from us)