PSYC 2740 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Borderline Personality Disorder, Pain Tolerance, Information Processing
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Information processing: the transformation of sensory input into mental representations and the manipulation of such representations: objectifying cognition: processing information by relaying it to objective facts. Contrast to personalizing cognition: personalizing cognition: processing information by relating it to a similar event in your own life. Rod and frame test(rft: field-dependent: people who are in uenced by environment cues, field-independent: people who are in uenced by inner (self) cues. Favour social science, education; attentive to social cues, oriented toward others. Favour natural science, math, engineering; more interpersonally detached. Better able to screen out distracting information and focus on a task. Pain tolerance: low pain tolerance = augmented pain, high pain tolerance = reduced pain. Reducer-augmenter theory: the dimension on which we di er in our reaction to sensory stimulation. Bohus, 2003: method: compared patients with borderline personality disorder to those with no diagnosis.