PSYC 2740 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Carol Dweck, Theory Of Multiple Intelligences, Walter Mischel
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Police mistakenly shot a man can fired 41 bullets. Personalizing cognition - the science prompted a recall a similar event from their own life. People develop different beliefs about what is important in life. Field dependence field dependence versus field independence - field dependence is not being able to look beyond the details to see the big picture. Eft - hidden figure test - look for smaller drawings within big ones scores on field independence/ dependence are stable over time field dependence and independence and life choices. Petrie"s research reducer/ augmenter theory some appear to reduce sensory information while others appear to augment it the brain actually has stronger reactions in sensory augmenters reducers do more stimulating things - drink coffee smoke. Personal constructs - provides a lens on how people interpret other people\ Postermodernism - in an intellectual position grounded in the notion that reality is constructed, no single version is anymore privileged than another.