Psychology 2035A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: The Residents, Thought Suppression, Rebound Effect

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2035A/B
• Professor: Doug Hazlewood

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In psychology when we talk about perceived control we are talking about an expected relation (or contingency) between responses and outcomes (an expected response-outcome contingency) Question: is perceived control important in our everyday lives: what happens when animals are deprived of control. A dog was placed in one of the two sections in a box: a light went on in the box, 10 seconds later there is a shock. If the dog jumps over the hurdle, it escapes. The dog can escape these shocks by jumping over a hurdle to the other side of the box. Most dogs had no problem meeting this contingency between its responses and outcomes. Another dog, passively accepted the shocks: this dog does not seem to realize the contingency. Both dogs had preciously been placed in a harness: while they were in this harness, a light would go on and receive a shock in the same sequence.