PSYC 203 Lecture Notes - Social Rejection, Dysphoria
31 Jan 2014
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Why ask why? : causal uncertainty and social cognition and. Cognitive theory of depression: hopelessness theory: negative life event, making a global, stable attribution. This is a negative attribution that the life event is always true and cannot be changed: helplessness and hopelessness, depression. Hopelessness tends to be the last step before depression. Processing of social information can be difficult, confusing, and cause dysphoria. Causal uncertainty: uncertain about the causes of events. In this talk, especially talking about causes of events in social relationships. This can lead to expecting negative outcomes: depression, normally distributed in the public. Hopelessness is a type of certainty. It is being certain that things have no future potential. Remember that this walk is entitled why ask why? , within these questions we can build causal uncertainty in ourselves. It all comes down to greater seeking and processing of information. Feelings can act as cues to processing.
