PSYCH-UA 30 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Neurosis, Cognitive Therapy, Learned Helplessness
18 Dec 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
11/24/2014 3:19:00 pm: main focus last week: depression, 4 approaches. Subsets in terms of learned helplessness: lewinsohn said onset of depression occurs when there"s not enough reinforcement in your life. Poverty from a young age, caregiver doesn"t take good care of you lacking skillset learned helplessness. Separated concept of learned helplessness into 3 portions. Posited first formulation: no matter what you do, it won"t affect the consequences. Studied using dogs, didn"t specify how people develop it just covered that it"s a phenomenon: not true that everyone develops learned helplessness, not everyone falls into state of learned helplessness. Reformulation of theory: doesn"t matter if it"s internal or external (it"s about stability, thinking that the negative events will endure. Stress with your cognitive vulnerability will lead you to ruminate, which leads someone to develop hopelessness, which leads someone to develop depression. Pessimistic attributional style, facing a lot of stress, many strong relationships and you"re able to vent etc.
