PSYC 335 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Learned Helplessness, Limbic System, Stereotype Threat
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Seeing our futures through optimism, self-efficacy, & hope. Costs & benefits to future orientations run the risk of making your life too busy (must stop to smell roses & be mindful) There are 3 major future-oriented temporal perspectives in pos psych: self efficacy, optimism, hope. If i think i can , i will. Power of the belief that you can accomplish your goals. Self-efficacy: people"s beliefs in their capabilities to produce desired effects by their own actions. People examine what needs to be done in order to reach a desired goal (outcome expenctancies) , the person then analyzes their capacility to complete the necessary actions (efficacy expectancies) Situation-specific thoughts of self-efficacy are the last & most crucial cognitive step beforeppl launch goal-directed actions. Based on social cognitive theory (humans actively shape their lives rather than passively react to their environment) We have powerful symbonlozing capacities for cognitively creating models of experiences.
