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| Background for Cognitive-Affective Personality System |
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•The Consistency Paradox
•Behaviors consistent v. not consistent
•Person-Situation Interaction
•the person, thesituation, and theinteraction between person and situation. |
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| Cognitive Affective Personality System |
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•Accounts for variability across situations as well as stability of behaviors within a person
•If A, then X; but if B, then Y
•“If Mark is provoked by his wife he will act with aggression. If Mark is provoked by his boss, he will react with submission.” |
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| Behavioural Signature of Personality |
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•pattern of variability that is consistent over time (his personality has a signature that remains stable across situations even as his behavior changes) |
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•If personality is a stable system that processes information about the situation, then as people encounter different situations, they should behave differently as those situations vary.
•Expectancies, competencies, believes, affects, and goals could influence |
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•Situation variables include all those stimuli that people attend to in a given situation.
•People may respond similarly or very differently |
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| Cognitive Affective Units |
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•all those psychological, social, and physiological aspects of people that permit them to interact with their environment with some stability in their behavior. |
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| Each person's manner of categorizign info |
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| Competencies & Self-regulatory Strategies |
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- We learn what to do and what not to do
- Controlling behaviour through self-imposed goals & consequences
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| Guesses of different behavioural consequences and outcomes |
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| Subjective Goals and Values |
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| Goals for major goals and values |
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•Cognitive social learning theory combines the rigors of learning theory with the speculative assumption that people are forward-looking beings.
•It rates high on generating research, internal consistency
•Rates about average on its ability to be falsified, to organize data, and to guide action. |
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•Rotter and Mischel see people as goal-directed, cognitive animals whose perceptions of events are more crucial than the events themselves.
•Cognitive social learning theory rates very high on social influences, and high on uniqueness of the individual, free choice, teleology, and conscious processes.
•On the dimension of optimism versus pessimism, Rotter's view is slightly more optimistic, whereas Mischel's is about in the middle. |
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