PSYC 3325 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Field Dependence, Information Processing, Social Learning Theory
2 Apr 2019
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Introduction: cognitive approaches to personality: investigating differences in how people think, personalizing cognition: recalling similar events from one"s own life, objectifying cognition: recalling objective facts, cognition: awareness, thinking, perceiving, attending to, interpreting, remembering, believing, judging, deciding, anticipating. Information processing: the transformation of sensory input into mental representations and the manipulation of such representations: perception: the process of imposing order on the information our sense organs take in. Interpretation: the making sense of, or explaining, various events in the world: conscious goals: the standards that people develop for evaluating themselves and others. Personality revealed through perception: perceptual differences can be stable, consistent, and meaningfully related to other areas of life. Field dependence/independence and life choices: choice of major in college is related to field independence/dependence, field-independent students favor natural sciences, math, and engineering, field-dependent students favor social sciences and education. Personality revealed through interpretation: responsibility/blame, expectations for the future. Intention what people want to happen, what they want to achieve.
