PSY328H5 Lecture Notes - Psychopathology, Insomnia, Hypervigilance
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Cogitive qualifiers of learned helplessness: global (thinking bad things happen cause its your fault) vs specific view ( just a ne time thing) of negative situation, external ( you don"t have a coice in life) vs internal (your in control of life you can do what you want) locus of control, stable (things are bad casue they will always be bad and they will remain bad) vs transitory (things will change, things will get better more realistic view) view of life conditions. 1) tension building: the person is amazing and charming at first (aka honeymoon phase) but after that things start to go worng, we are infatuated with a person and oxytocin is released which makes us feel that way. this phase includes emotional violence and intimidation, arguing etc: acute battering incident: first incident of battering, a push, a slap a choke, contrition phase: genuine expression of remorse and guilt from the abuser.