Psychology 2075 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Coronary Artery Disease, 18 Months, Perceived Control
21 May 2016
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Stress and coping: the role of perceived control. Prologue: what is perceived control: control deprecation in animals, learned helplessness in people, reactions to physical illness, controlling thoughts. There is an expected relation or contingency between our responses/behaviors and our outcomes. i. e. if you do x you will achieve outcome y . Doesn"t take long for dogs to connect jumping with escaping the shock. Now we meet a second dog, who when the shock is administered, the dog sits there and passively accepts the shock. Turns out that both dogs had been strapped into a harness previously, and a light was turned on, and they were shocked. But one of the dogs realized that it could escape the shock my turning its head side to side. This first dog learned there was a contingency between its response and its outcome, if it moves its head or jumped, the shock stopped.
