PSYC 2530 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Learned Helplessness, Explanatory Style, Externals

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2530
• Professor: Jocelyn B.Proulx

Document Summary

People with external locus of control are more vulnerable to persuasion, social inluences and conformity pressures. Internals and external difer in which aspects of a situaion they pay more atenion to. Externals are more sensiive to social demands of a situaion: internals are more sensiive to the task demands of a situaion. Externals paid more atenion when feedback of their performance came from the experimenter rather than the direct task at hand: internals preferred to receive feedback directly from their performance, cultural diferences in locus of control. Individualisic cultures have more of an internal locus of control. Are vulnerable to an illusion of control: where people believe they have control even in situaions where they actually do not. Collecivisic cultures have more of an external locus of control. Supernatural forces, fate and event desiny has control of their outcomes. John wiesz believes that there are 2 ways in maintaining control 1. Learned helplessness: learned helplessness lomoar cpsd| 987298.