PSYC 2600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Nicotine, Graduate Management Admission Test, Nouse

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2600
• Professor: Lorena Ruci

Document Summary

Interpretation: process of making sense of, or explaining, events in the world: giving meanings to events. Intelligence: personality revealed through perception, we all perceive reality through our own lens (mental representation, based on our sensory and perceptual systems field dependence, developed by psychologist witkin, developed apparatus - Locus of control: locus of control describes person"s interpretation of responsibility for events in his/her life. Locate responsibility internal within themselves: external fate, luck or chance. Internal locus of control: generalized expectancies that reinforcing events are under one"s control, and that one is responsible for major life outcomes. Dogs initially in inescapable shock condition responded with agitation at first but then laid down and took the shock. When moved to escapable box, did not een try to escape: demonstrated learned helplessness . Intelligence: achievement vs. aptitude views of intelligence. Interpersonal (sensitivity to others" moods, temperaments, motivations; cooperation)