Cognitive Topics 1 Flashcards
What are the 4 levels of Cognition
Perception, Interpretation, Beliefs and Desires, Intelligence
Field Independence
being able to focus on the details despite the clutter around it
Field Dependance
rely on external cues, seeing the bigger picture
people with low pain tolerance?
ave a nervous system
that amplified or augmented subjective impact of sensory
input (augmenters)
People with high pain tolerance
have a nervous system
that is dampened and reduced effects of sensory
information (reducers)
Kelly’s Personal Construct Theory
people attempt to understand and predict events to make sense to them
Cognitive schema
helps person process incoming information
post-modernism
reality is constructed
Fundamental Postulate
a person’s
processes are psychologically
channelized by the ways in which he
anticipates events
Commonality corollary
If two people have similar
construct systems, they will be
psychologically similar
External locus of control
general things that are out of out control from events
Internal locus of control
general things that are under our control
learned helplessness
becoming passive and accepting of a situation instead of helping yourself
What are 2 kinds of Learned Helplessness are there?
1-Explanatory Style; stable vs unstable, and internal vs external, and global vs specific
2-Pessimistic Explanatory style
Personal Projects
a set of relevant actions intended to achieve the goal that a person is trying to achieve
