PSYC 2740 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Albert Bandura, Learned Helplessness, Julian Rotter

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2740
• Professor: Stephen Lewis

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Rorchach inkblots: interpretation, making sense of, or explaining, various event in the world, concerns giving meaning to events. Individual differences in perception: personality can be revealed through differences in how people perceive the environment. Field dependence: witkin, first interested in the cues that people use in judging orientation in space, to study individual differences devised an apparatus called the. If participant adjusts the rod so that it is leaning in the direction of the tilted frame then person is dependent on the visual field (field dependent) Field independent: performance on both the rft and eft correlates, scores on measures of field dependence/ independence are stable over time, field dependence/ independence and life choices: According to witkins field dependence/ independence has consequences on: education, choice of major, field-independent students: favoured natural sciences, math, and engineering, field-dependent: favoured social sciences and education.