Psychology 2035A/B Lecture Notes - Learned Helplessness, Perceived Control, Coronary Artery Disease

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

Document Summary

Stress and coping: the role of perceived control. An expected relation (or contingency) between responses/behaviours and outcomes (ex: if you do x, you will achieve outcome y ) Dogs in a shuttle-box: (a shuttle box is box divided by two barriers). First dog: light comes on, then 10 seconds later there is a shock. The dog can escape by going over the barrier. Second dog: the light comes on, the dog stays and accepts the shock. The light came on and ten seconds later the shock came. The first dog learned it could control the shock by turning its head either to the left or the right had no problem learning a response. The second dog learned there was no contingency between the response and the outcomes. When placed in shuttle box, failed to learn there was a response it could make to change the outcome. Prior exposure to the uncontrollable shocks (in harness) learned helplessness.