PSY E112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Psychological Resilience, Learned Helplessness, Psy
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Emphasize social experience in dev. of personality. Personalities affect how we interact w/ environment (and their affect on us) Personality is result of cognitive constructs (general belief system that affects how person understands events and selects behaviour) and thus is never fixed. Locus of control: based on experience, belief that what happens to one either is or isn"t controllable by their own efforts. Internal locus control: feel as though they"re in control of their own rewards and their fate. More likely to take health care measures (exercising, eating well, etc. ) More likely to achieve strong academic goals. External locus control: chance/outside forces determine their fate. Ex. dogs put into location and experienced shock. Those that had experienced it before lay down, those that haven"t figure out way to escape. Called learned helplessness- related to notion of control. Self-efficacy: belief in ability of oneself to perform specific task. Individualistic cultures: priority to individual gaols over group goals (personal identities.
