PSYC 2600 Lecture : Personality class 13.odt
29 Mar 2012
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Cognitive approaches to personality: cognition: awareness and thinking; specific mental acts such as perceiving, interpreting, remembering, believing, anticipating, differences in how people process information. Field independent (relative to field dependent) people have the ability to focus on details despite the clutter of background information: measures used to assess field-dependence. Rod and frame test (rft: differences relate to life choices (education, interpersonal relations, current research on field dependence-independence. Field independent people are better able to screen out distracting information and focus on a task. Field-independent students learn more effectively than field dependent students in hypermedia- based instructional environment. Pain tolerance and sensation reducing-augmenting: aneseth petrie"s reducer-augmenter theory of pain tolerance. People with low pain tolerance have a nervous system that is amplified or augmented subjective impact of sensory input. People with high pain tolerance have a nervous system that is dampened or reduced effects of sensory information.
