Cognitive topics in personality |  |
Learning ObjectivesUpon completing this chapter, you will be able to:
| Define cognition, including an identification of the key levels of cognition that are of interest to personality psychologists. |
| Define and differentiate personalizing cognition and objectifying cognition. |
| Compare and contrast human information processing and computer information processing. |
| Define field dependence, and review recent and historical work on this personality variable. |
| Discuss historical and modern work by personality psychologists on pain tolerance and sensation reducing-augmenting. |
| Define locus of control, and discuss historical and modern work on this personality variable. |
| Differentiate generalized expectancies from specific expectancies. |
| Define learned helplessness, and discuss historical and modern work on this personality variable. |
| Discuss explanatory style, and identify how it is a reformulated theory of learned helplessness. |
| Discuss and differentiate the explanatory style dimensions of internal/external, stable/ temporary, and global/specific. |
| Discuss the key elements of optimistic and pessimistic explanatory styles, and provide examples of each type of explanatory style. |
| Discuss work on the relationship between explanatory style and health. |
| Discuss Personal Projects Analysis as a strategy for studying personality. |
| Discuss personality research focusing on life tasks, goals, and strategies. |
| Discuss intelligence as an individual difference variable. |
| Differentiate the achievement and aptitude approaches to intelligence. |
| Discuss general intelligence and specific intelligences. |
| Discuss the cultural context of intelligence. |
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