PSYC 2245 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Learned Helplessness, Overeating, Immune System
9 Dec 2016
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Psyc 2245 - lecture 10 - social psychology in action: health. Negative feelings and beliefs that occur whenever people feel unable to cope with demands from their environment. Cardiac complications due to stress can lead to high blood pressure. Immune system is weakened and vulnerable due to stress. The belief that we can influence our environment in ways that determine whether we experience positive or negative outcomes. Self-efficacy: the belief in one"s ability to carry out specific actions that produce desired outcomes. Increases one"s persistence, decreases anxiety: we become more confident in what we do, and how we do it, domain-specific perceived control. Learned helplessness: pessimism that results from attributing a negative event to stable, internal and global factors: stable: causes will not change over time. Internal: causes are inherent to one"s character, attitude or personality: global: applies to a large number of situations. The ways in which people react and handle stressful events.
