PSYCH 3BA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Learned Helplessness, Pessimism, Cognitive Restructuring
5 Nov 2014
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You"ve got to spread joy up to the maximum, Johnny mercer, 1944: future expectancies around the positive rather than the negative. Learned helplessness with signs of depression: learned optimism (abramson, seligman & teasdale, 1978, based on model of causal attribution, three dimensions of causal attribution: Internal versus external = attribute successes/failures to something to the world or to ourselves. Stable versus unstable causes = things that can be changed or fixed and unchangeable. Global versus specific causes = things that are general about ourselves/the world at large. Or things to specific about ourselves or to a situation. Internal causes: something about me personally, i didn"t know the material well enough. Stable causes: something that does not change or vary, because i"m not good at academic work. Global causes: related to a wide range of situations, i m not very intelligent. External causes: not me, but the outside world, the test questions were poorly worded.
