PSYCH-230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Learned Helplessness
27 Oct 2020
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Beck"s expanded cognitive model negative schemas become organised into a depressive mode due to repeated activation the mode is a network of cognitive, affective, motivational, behavioural, and physiological schemas that accounts for fully expressed depression. Negative events impact the mode making it hypersalient, thus the mode takes control of the information processing. Re ected by increased negative appraisals and rumination. Psychological disorders exist on the same continuum as adaptive functioning. Depression can make thinking more negative, and negative thinking can cause and worsen depression. Similar to depressed people, animals appeared passive in the face of stress, failing to initiate actions that might allow them to cope. Had dif culty eating or retaining what they ate, and they lost weight. Similar studies conducted on humans indicated that helplessness sometimes led to improvement of performance. Depressive paradox: a cognitive tendency for depressed individuals to accept personal responsibility for negative outcomes despite feeling a lack of personal control.
