PSYB30H3 Lecture Notes - Field Dependence, Learned Helplessness, Explanatory Style
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Focuses on differences in information processing; specifically cognition. Specific mental acts: perceiving, interpreting, remembering, believing, and anticipating, etc. Perception: process of imposing order on information received by our sense organs. Field independence: people, who are able to focus while there is noise occurring, are field independent. Field dependence: whereas the opposite is the case for those who are field dependant. They are able to be separated by majors: field independence: natural sciences, math, and engineering; field dependant: social science, and education. They found out field dependant people rely on social cues, and are oriented towards other people. Whereas field independent people function with more autonomy and are more detached from others. Embedded figures test (eft): images embedded into a picture, you have to be able to pick out the pictures within the picture. [find the squirrel in the sky, elephant with the horse shoe ears].
