Psychology 2035A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: The Rebound, 18 Months, Houseplant

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2035A/B
• Professor: Doug Hazlewood

Document Summary

Prologue: what is perceived control: control deprivation in animals, learned helplessness in people, reactions to physical illness, controlling our thoughts. An expected relation (or contingency) between responses and outcomes (an. Prologue: what is perceived control? expected response-outcome contingency: (cid:498))f you do x, you will achieve outcome y(cid:499) exam. Q: is perceived control important in everyday lives: ex. Expected contingency between studying and the outcome on the. Lh occurs in a wide variety of animals; Lh generalizes to new situations: control the shocks by moving its head to the right or left, second dog learned that there are no way to control the shock. Prior exposure to uncontrollable shocks (in harness) learned: ex. )f a dog learns it can"t control shocks in harness, it later has. Animals can be (cid:498)immunized(cid:499) against l( by providing prior experiences with control (cid:523)ex. )f control in harness, dog has difficulty learning it can"t control.