PSYC 356 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Social Learning Theory, Classical Conditioning, Social Cognition

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 356
• Professor: Martin Davidson

Document Summary

Shapes approach to and response from environment. Positive affect/approach; fearful/inhibited; negative affect/irritability: emotional reactivity: intensity of emotional experience, emotion regulation: how to manage emotions (enhance, maintain, and inhibit) What was once adaptive becomes maladaptive: attachment is key here. Better at predicting situational behaviour rather than stable traits. Emphasis on variables in the environment controlling functioning through reinforcement and conditioning: aba: behaviour is the result of antecedents and consequences, not underlying, latent issues. Neutral event/behaviour becomes conditioned through pairing with ucs. Cognitive distortions (beck: cognitive interpretation of an event mediates emotional reaction. Thoughts/feelings/behaviour triangle: negative, distorted thoughts/interpretations a emotional distress, beck does not emphasize etiology so much. Focuses more on maintenance of distress: others hypothesize origins are in caregiving interactions. Research in late 70s examines prediction that depressed people more likely to blame themselves when something goes wrong. Depressed people superior at determining extent of their role in events.