PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Perceived Control, Pessimism, Learned Helplessness

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

Document Summary

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. Personality revealed through perception: field dependence-independence, pain tolerance and sensation reducing-augmenting. Requires you find certain figures embedded in a larger figure. The faster you can do it, the more field independent you are: rod and frame test (rft) Room is dark and person is placed facing apparatus. Rod in the middle of frame = rod and frame glow brightly have to use a knob to adjust the position of the rod so that it is straight up and down. In order to do this must be able to ignore the frame and just focus on the rod.