PSYCH-UA 30 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Cognitive Therapy, Thrall, Learned Helplessness
18 Dec 2016
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Diathesis of this model: pessimistic attributional style. Pessimistic attributional style what is pertinent when you are interpreting problematic, negative life events such as stressors. Global attribution vs. specific attribution: 2nd reformulation of learned helplessness theory. Cognitive vulnerability model to depression, and under the right circumstances, then that cognitive vulnerability is likely to come into play and cause depression. Particular pessimistic attributional style that was specified in first formulation has some problems. One of several vulnerability factors is attributional style it is not the only/primary cognitive vulnerability. Internal, stable, and global attribution for some kind of failure or obstacle or problem: doesn"t matter all that much if attribution is internal, what matters is that it"s a stable and global attribution. Factors that are going to be stable across your life span (stable), and relevant across every domain that you enter (global) these alone are strong factors to create a cognitive vulnerability to depression.
