PSYCH-UA 30 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Learned Helplessness, Neurosis, Psychopathology
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11/19/2014 6:19:00 pm: how you think about take-home essays: Cognitive vulnerability in interaction with stressor combination of these things leads you to be depressed. One of the problems that rises is that if you take something like pessimistic attributional style (as an example) and you"re trying to use that as the diathesis or vulnerability factor in the onset of testing depression. You"re presented with these stimuli briefly long enough that it"s in consciousness but not too long next, we quickly take the face away what"s underneath one of the faces is a dot. Participant"s job is to push the key on the right or the left as quickly as possible to indicate where the dot appeared. Gotlieb (the person behind this: beck"s cognitive model. Model of depressive self schemas that some people (if you are depressed) will have a depressed self schema: this is a vulnerability to depression you might have this even if you are not depressed.