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Personality Chpt 16
Question | Answer |
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personality processes | perception, thought, motivation, emotion |
priming | differences in perception explained by these cognitive mechanisms |
chronic accessibility | cognitive systems becomes part of our personalities |
perceptual defense | the ability to screen out information that might make the individual anxious or uncomfortable |
short term memory | the place that consciousness is located, only hold 7 things |
chunks | any piece of information that can be thought of as a unit |
Funder's Fifth Law | the purpose of education is to assemble new chunk |
goals | the ends of one's desires |
strategies | the means the individual uses to achieve the goals |
incremental theories | believing that intelligence and ability can change with time and experience |
entity theories | personal qualities such as intelligence and ability are unchangeable, they do not have what it takes |
procedural knowledge | cannot be learned or fully expressed through words but only through actions and experiences |
emotional intelligence | accurately perceiving emotions in oneself and others, controling ones emotion |