PSY 11 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Learned Helplessness, Joseph Wolpe, Systematic Desensitization
24 Apr 2016
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Behavioral theories of personality are based on principles of learning (ex. The work of pavlov (dogs) or skinner (enforcement)) They are used to try and understand human beings. The way they see the world is negative. The way they see the future is as if it"s not going to get better. Huge discrepancy between thinking and the objective facts. Magnification: when people exaggerate all the negative aspects of a situation. Minimization: when people downplay the good aspects of a situation. Get the person to believe the opposite through logical arguments proving them wrong and to see the reality of the situation. A lot of depressed people say that they know things aren"t as bad as they say they are. Many people exaggerate the negative things but aren"t depressed. Inexperienced therapists can cause the person to feel blamed and ultimately make them feel worse. 2 graduate students that did a study to originally prove beck right in his theory.
