Topic 3: Social cognition view of traits, conceptual similarity, traits as prototypes and CAPS

Question 1

CAPS?

Answer 1

Cognitive affective personality system: we need to understand the person, situation and the person-situation interaction, to understand that behaviour is a result of individual perception of oneself in a situation. NOT a global personality trait.

Question 2

The five person variables (Mischel)

Answer 2

C= Competence- intellectual capabilities + social skills.
E= Encoding- Different perceptions of a specific event e.g. what may be threatening to you, may be challenging to another person. 
E= Expectencies- the expected results of different behaviours that are realized by the person inside his own mind.
S= Subjective values- value of each possible outcime of various behaviours. 
S= Self-regulatory systems- groups of rules and standsrds that people adapt in order to regulate their behaviour.