COGNITIVE PERSPECTIVE Flashcards
cognitive perspective on personality rests _____ on two assumptions
A) overtly
B) directly
C) explicitly
D) implicitly
D) implicitly
according to the cognitive perspective, personality is reflected in
A) emotional expression
B) decision making and biases
C) social conformity
D) environmental influences
B) decision making and biases
Kelly said the best way to understand personality is to think of people as
A) direct experiencers
B) scientists
C) learners
D) passive observers
B) scientists
according to Kelly, people generate _______
to create conceptions about how the world works
A) general ideas
B) personal constructs
C) decisions
D) ideas
B) personal constructs
mental organizations of information
A) fuzzy set
B) exemplar
C) script
D) schemas
D) schemas
Most views assume that schemas include information about specific cases, called
A) fuzzy set
B) scripts
C) prototype
D) exemplars
D) exemplars
. This sense of the category as a whole is captured in an idealized best member of the category, often called its
A) archetype
B) paragon
C) prototype
D) exemplas
C) prototype
what term has been used to convey the sense that a schema is defined in a vague way by a set of criteria that are relevant but not necessary
A) heuristic
B) event
C) fuzzy set
D) category set
C) fuzzy set
a collection of people, movements, objects in use, and so on.
A) attribtution
B) event
C) objects
D) category
B) event
when you identify new events, what do you compare them to
A) exemplar
B) scheme
C) heuristics
D) schemas
D) schemas
Something you assume is true unless you’re told otherwise is called what
A) an error
B) a default
C) schema
D) an episode
B) a default
how is semantic memory organised
A) knowledge
B) movements
C) events
D) meaning
D) meaning
what memory is categories of objects and concepts
A) episodic
B) semantic
C) procedural
D) event
B) semantic
memory for events or episodes, experiences in space and time
A) episodic
B) semantic
C) procedural
D) prospective
A) episodic
if you experience enough episodes of a given type, a schema for that class of episodes starts to form a
A) script
B) fuzzy set
C) memory
D) self schema
A) script
what is a script
A) An organization of knowledge in memory.
B) A prototype of an event category
C) A process of growing in ways that maintain or enhance the self
D) Deciding for yourself what to do
B) a prototype of an event category
conceptual categories (semantic) develop through repeated exposure to
A) regularities in experiences
B) patterns in thoughts
C) anomalies in perceptions
D) consistencies in beliefs
A) regularities in experiences
dividing one number by another, turning a statement into a question, and making a decision between two alternatives all require use of
A) procedural knowledge
B) explicit memory
C) declarative knowledge
D) intuitive reasoning
A) procedural knowledge
Cognitive processes that focus on socially meaningful stimuli
A) scripts
B) schemas
C) social cognition
D) emotional cognition
C) social cognition
a schema formed about yourself
A) ego identity
B) self-perception
C) self concept
D) self schema
D) self schema
The self-schema incorporates what
A) abstract concepts and emotional experiences
B) social norms and cultural expectations
C) self-esteem and personal values
D) trait labels and information about concrete behaviour
D) trait labels and information about concrete behaviour
Different people’s self-schemas differ in
A) self-esteem
B) complexity
C) consistency
D) conformity
B) complexity
The degree to which your self-schema is differentiated and compartmentalized.
A) self-reflection
B) self-coherence
C) self-variability
D) self complexity
D) self complexity
people who have distinct self- schema aspects are high in
A) self schemas
B) self complexity
C) self-consistency
D) self-identity
B) self complexity