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Personality Chpt 16
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |