PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Advantageous, Optimism, Natural Killer Cell

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Elizabeth Page- Gould

Document Summary

Term defined by julian rotter as people"s belief about the control of reinforcements and outcomes in their lives. They believer that outcomes are due to chance, luck, fate, powerful others. If people are rewarded for their actions they will come to believe that they can indeed control what happens to them. If they are not rewarded they will think that they lack control and that events happen due to external causes for unknown and unpredictable reason: differ in the process information. Internals pay more attention to information that they may be useful to them later and they also retain more information than externals. For example, both hospitalized tuberculosis patients and prisoners facing parole who were internal retained more information related to their condition than externals. Is often measured with internal-external locus of control scale. Respondents are presented with 29 pairs of statements in a forced choice format.