PSYC 361 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Learned Helplessness, Operant Conditioning, Prefrontal Cortex
Document Summary
Stress and control: physiological effects of lack of control- focus on development of ulcers, weiss 1972, 1977: rats hooked up to device which delivers electric shocks to tail. The perception of control: people either try and control events (primary control) or adjust to events they cannot control (secondary control) such as, predictive control: even failure can become predictable and dealt with. Knowing you will fail and deal with it calmly. Illusory control: attributing random events to personal skill eg. throwing dice: vicarious control: belief that there is higher power in control, either divine or not. Some greater force in control eg. god: degree of secondary control reduces averseness of an event resilience to some stress related disorders eg ptsd.
