PSYC 2600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Standardized Test, Intentionality, Julian Rotter
8 Apr 2014
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Goals: relatively recent field within personality psychology, shift we usually think about aspects of personality that we have for goals, we"re looking at personality as individual differences in doing, based on what people do. We"ll finish with brian little"s project analysis. Reminder of reducing-augmenting: reduce/augment incoming perceptual stimulation (ex. Hypothesis assumptions: emotions are a form of stimulation, may be able to regulate emotional level to match up required stimulation. We"ve been talking about individual differences in perception. In fft characteristic adaptations: which is pretty mindblowing, we"ve been focusing on reducing-augmenting tendencies (some of us get queasy at injections, some don"t even notice) We"ll move on to interpretation: learned helplessness optimism-pessimism (we"ll later discuss this in level. Scales: reducers should find boredom more aversive than augmenters, step 1: 1584 simple, boring math problems (two-digit addition and subtraction, step 2: choose task for second part.
