PSYCH 243 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Transcendental Meditation, Learned Helplessness, Mantra
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Psych 243 lecture 18 coping responses. Humans and animals need support of others. Many social support systems in united states: also in many other countries, support system for nearly every need. Are useful to reduce immediate negative feelings. Can give some time to find effective coping. Repression: pushing from consciousness: absent-minded forgetting , amnesia after a traumatic event. Regression: reverting to younger behavior: like learned helplessness or codependency. Compensation: replacing a weakness with a strength: saying things that they really are not (not as good as they say they are) Emotional insulation: walling off feelings to protect against further hurt: situation doesn"t matter . Arousal level and performance level graph: optimum arousal level to perform at best. Yerkes-dodson arousal-performance law: level of performance depends on level of arousal and difficulty of task: the higher the level of arousal the harder a difficult task may be.
