What two assumptions underlie the cognitive perspective on personality?
What will be an ideal response?
(1) It is critical to understand how people manage the sensory information that surrounds them. In order to understand the bits of information people receive, they must integrate and organize these bits in some way.
(2) Life involves a chain of decisions, both conscious and (more commonly) nonconscious. These decisions, and the irregularities in implicit decisions, have important implications for personality.
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a. Cutaneous system b. Sympathetic system c. Vestibular system d. Limbic system
_____ is an intense, irregular, withdrawing style, generally marked by negative moods
a) Moderate temperament b) Medium temperament c) Slow-to-warm-up temperament d) Difficult temperament
Research finds that, compared to introverts, extraverts tend to
A. be happier, but only on weekends. B. be less happy. C. have higher levels of subjective well-being and happiness. D. be just about as happy, but they enjoy different things.
Jim and Bob both have negative attitudes toward review sessions. Jim's instructor explains that review sessions can help to focus study efforts. Jim thinks carefully about this explanation and then changes his attitude using the __________ route to attitude change. Bob's instructor also tells him that review sessions are useful. Bob doesn't think much about the explanation, but he is impressed by his instructor's confidence and thinks that she is very intelligent so he changes his attitude using the __________ route to attitude change.
A. peripheral; central B. central; peripheral C. peripheral; peripheral D. central; central