PSYB30H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Explanatory Style, Learned Helplessness, Julian Rotter
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Field dependent: tend to see the bigger picture rather than details. ( good at learning new languages in classroom setting. Field independent: rely on their own physical sensations and have selective attention to a particular object without being distracted by surrounding details. (learn ebest while being totally immersed in everyday situations) Term defined by julian rotter as people"s belief about the control of reinforcements and outcomes in their lives. People who believe they have some control over what happens to them have an internal locus of control, they are called internals. Externals are people who have an external locus of control- because they believe they have little control over what happens to them. 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.
