PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Learned Helplessness, Motivation, Cognitive Load

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Dan Dolderman

Document Summary

Amount of physical touch brain development: ex. Emotional responsiveness & grounding achievement & relationship outcomes for decades: the from parents affects babies biological development and lasts for a long time. Many systems and levels of analysis affect our developing psychology. Genie escape abuse household with mother seems developmentally delayed. Not a normal 7 year old = restrained, fearful, shutdown. Unable to walk, climb, moved like a rabbit. She was locked in a tiny, dark room, tied to a toilet, no human contact (except beating), no stimulation, no games, friends, outside nothing. Got abused in institutional setting, her mother got back custody, was so damaged and she disappeared into a world in extreme care for people. Never learn to be a normal person . Learned helplessness in 1st 2 month kids programmed > give up: environmental nurture effect. By 8 moths kids becoming slackers, avoiding behavioral coping strategies: i"m not gunna try, i can"t person.