Essay Questions
2. How do social and cognitive processes affect behaviour?
Key Points:
- Cognitive–affective units in the personality system.
- The social–cognitive approach and dimensions of attribution.
- Attributional style and depression.
- Lazarus’ work on the concept of cognitive appraisal.
- Different coping strategies and mechanisms.
- The concept of self-efficacy.
- Encoding styles, expectancies and personal values.
- Self-determined and controlled actions.
- Competencies and self-regulatory plans.
- The importance of self-consciousness.
- Self-discrepancy theory.
- Competencies and social intelligence.
