PSY 352 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Field Dependence, Personal Construct Theory, Clinical Psychology

• School: University of Arizona
• Department: Psychology Main
• Course: PSY 352
• Professor: Lazarwicz

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Lecture outline #13: cognitive approaches to personality cognitive psychology: study of how we process information. E. g. memory, thinking, judgments and decision-making, language, etc. What individual differences exist in information-processing: perception, interpretation. Part 1: personality & perception sensation: detection of sensory info from outside world perception: interpretation and understanding of sensory information these are not always the same . Rod and frame test: pitch black room glowing rod, surrounded by tilted glowing box adjust rod perfectly upright. Embedded figures test: (strongly pos. correlated with rft: typical task found in books for children in which they have to find hidden items in the context of a figure. Witkin (1977): career selection field independent science, math, engineering field dependent social sciences, education. Witkin & goodenough (1977): social interaction field dependent aware of social cues, ask others for opinions, high agreeableness field independent more autonomy, interpersonal detachment, prefer nonsocial settings: iv: field independent/dependent ps interpret facial expressions.