PSYCH-225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Learned Helplessness, Ingratiation, Psych
7 Jul 2020
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Learned helplessness: learned helplessness and the depressive pessimistic attribution style. When an elephant is tethered its entire life on a 10" line and when untethered they didn"t move beyond 10". Human extension: depressed humans; curled up in a ball, etc. etc. Seligman proposed 3 attributional dimensions, two of them the same as those proposed by weiner: Evidence supporting: correlation between this attributional style and depression. Depressive attribution style: internal stable global att. Change to: external, unstable situational -ie its them. Self- control: the executive function of self. Self regulatory resource model: is to make sure that we have plenty of energy when we are trying to control our actions. Thought suppression: whereby we try to push thoughts out of our minds. Often the more we try not to think about something the more it comes to our mind. Impression management: the attempt by people to get others to see them as they want to be seen.
