PSYB30H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Field Dependence, Explanatory Style, Learned Helplessness
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Explaining an individual"s personality by emphasizing the way that individual thinks. Focuses on the way people think basic differences in information processing. Differences in how we interpret things in how we think about things (our cognitions) are seen by the cognitive approach as forming the basis for our personalities. Perception is subjection, sensation is objective (size, shape, colour, smell: interpretation: process of making sense of, or explaining, events in the world. Involves a lot of complex cognitive processes and processes that are conscious: beliefs and desires: standards and goals people develop for evaluating themselves and others. Different methods people use to pursue their goals. Field independent (relative to field dependent) people can focus on details despite background information. Applies to many sensory domains such as sound focusing on certain sounds when there is a lot of ambient noise. Requires you find certain figures embedded in a larger figure. The faster you can do it, the more field independent you are.
