PSYC 2740 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Field Dependence, Harm Avoidance, Learned Helplessness
27 Mar 2013
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Differences in how people think are the focus of cognitive approaches to personality. Personalising cognition processing information by relating it to a similar event in your own life, occurs when people interpret a new event in personally relevant manner. Objectifying cognition processing information by relating it to objective facts. Cognition general term referring to awareness and thinking as well as to specific mental acts such as perceiving, interpreting, remembering, believing and anticipating. Information processing transformation of sensory input into mental representations and manipulations of such events. Humans spend great deal of time processing information but are not always accurate or unbiased. Differ greatly from each other in how perceive, think about, construe themselves, the world and other people. Three levels of cognition: perception - process of imposing order on the information our sense organs take in. Two people can look at same situation and see very different things. Differences in what people see may be related to their personality.
