PSYC 2740 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Bohus Fortress, Agreeableness, Positive Illusions

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2740
• Professor: Stephen Lewis

Document Summary

Objectifying cognition: see a picture and tell you what they see. Personalizing cognition: being able to recognize something that relates back to yourself (i. e where were you the rst time you heard that song) Objectifying and personalizing cognition make up information processing. Perception: what we take in, what we see in the world, what we feel physically. Interpretation: how you explain the things that you experience. Conscious goals: short term like preparing for a midterm or long term like grad school. Field dependent: individuals who are in uenced by environmental cues, favour social sciences, education; attentive to social cues, oriented toward others. Field independent: people who are in uenced by inner (self) cues, favour natural sciences, math, engineering; more interpersonally detached. *better able to screen out distracting information and focus on a task. Application: police of cers who are high in eld independence tend to do better in shooting tasks and in chases.