PSYB30H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter `10: Explanatory Style, Learned Helplessness, Externals
Document Summary
Those who are field-dependent tend to see the big picture rather than details. In contrast, people who are field-independent reply on their own physical sensations and have selective attention to a particular object without being distracted by the surrounding details. Whereas field-independent people are good at learning languages in a traditional classroom setting, field-dependent people learn best by being totally immersed in everyday situations where they are surrounded by a new language. Locus of control: people"s beliefs about what determines their outcomes in life, their own efforts (internal) or outside circumstances, such as other people, fate, or luck (external) People who believe that they have some control over what happens to them have an internal locus of control and are often called internals. Individualistic cultures tend to be so internal that they are actually vulnerable to an illusion of control where people believe they have control even in situations where, objectively, they do not.
