Psychology 2035A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Learned Helplessness, Tums, Perceived Control
13 Dec 2015
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The role of perceived control: control deprivation in animals, learned helplessness in people, reactions to physical illness, controlling our thoughts. An expected relation (or contingency) between responses and outcomes (an expected response-outcome contingency) If you do x, you will achieve outcome y . Dogs in a shuttle-box side of shocks after light is on: when dog is shocked in one part of box, it runs to other, they learn quickly to avoid the shock. They find control: another situation: another dog is shocked but doesn"t move away and occasionally moves to other side. It turns out both dogs have previously been placed in a harness, a light cam on and followed 10 seconds later by a shock. Both dogs received the same shock with the same sequence but first dog learned that it could control the shocks by moving its head to left or right, it would be able to escape those shocks.
