PSYC 2740 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Field Dependence, Necker Cube, Borderline Personality Disorder
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Friday, october 28, 2016 chapter 12 cognitive topics in personality. Done by mental behaviours that comprise cognition. 3 levels of cognition: perception: process of imposing order on the information taken in by sensory organs. Things can be perceived differently by people ex: necker cube: interpretation: making sense of, or explaining, various events, conscious goals: standards that people develop for evaluating themselves and others. Field-dependent: people who are influenced by environmental cues - favour social sciences, educations, attentive to social cues and oriented towards others. Reducer-augmenter theory: the dimension on which we differ in our reaction to sensory stimulation. Friday, october 28, 2016: low pain tolerance = augmented pain, high pain tolerance = reduced pain. Reducers tend to be more sensation-seeking an more likely to take psychoactive drugs or smoke at younger ages. Locus of control: person"s perception of responsibility for the events in his or her life: generalized expectancy: person"s expectations for reinforcement held across a variety of situations.