NEUR 3403 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ghrelin, Teratology, Agreeableness
4 Sep 2016
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Less severe stressor -> less of a stress response. Major life events promote more psychological disturbances than mild stressors. Learned helplessness -> possible to learn you can"t control an event even though you can. Escapable: quickly learned to escape by jumping over barrier. Received shock, no coping response could terminate the shock. Received shock, pressing nose against button could terminate shock. Quickly learned to escape shock by jumping over barrier. Demonstration of learned helplessness in high school students using anagrams https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=gfmfomprtt0. Uncertainty and unpredictability are related, but distinguishable. Desire for certainty varies in different individuals. Everyone will die, but when is generally unknown. uncertainty, unpredictability leads to increased perceived negativity. Ability to predict or have increased certainty leads to decreased perceived negativity. Various responses to certainty (some people don"t see certainty as a decreased stressor) Ambiguity arises from inconsistent information: diagnosing disease, predicting terrorism, ambiguity: nature of events. But people may also find hope in unpredictability.
