locus of control · attribution
Ask PrometheusWhether a self-model reads its outcomes as set by its own action or by conditions outside its reach, before any test of which is true.
Locus of control (noun) means: Whether a self-model reads its outcomes as set by its own action or by conditions outside its reach, before any test of which is true. It emerges from self-model, reach, set, read: The self-model reads each outcome as set either from within its reach or from outside it; the habitual answer becomes a standing reading that decides, before any test, whether acting is worth trying. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 15, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).
Examples
- Julian Rotter introduced locus of control in a 1966 monograph and measured it with his Internal-External scale. psychology
Emergence
through: The self-model reads each outcome as set either from within its reach or from outside it; the habitual answer becomes a standing reading that decides, before any test, whether acting is worth trying.
- a disposition of the reading, not of the reach
- one dial that can err in either direction
- attribution that precedes action
Chain to foundations
full chain as text (339 steps)
- locus of controlL15
- self-modelL14
- reachL13
- setL9
- readL7
- seeL6
- informationL6
- entitiesL4
- outcomeL10
- actionL4
- conditionL3
- outsideL6
- timeL0
- testL10
- trueL3
Neighborhood
Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.
Relations
| contrasts-with | dichotomy-of-control.sort | locus of control is a standing disposition of the self-model and can be wrong; the dichotomy of control is a deliberate sort judged by whether it is accurate |
| contrasts-with | learned-helplessness.under | learned helplessness is an external locus learned from failure and held where reach is wide |
| contrasts-with | illusion-of-control.over | illusion of control is an internal locus held where no action of one's own sets the outcome |