EDHD 411 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Mindset, Learned Helplessness, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
27 Feb 2018
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Learned helplessness: when you believe you cant control the situation, you risk contributing to your own failure. Phase 1: dogs receive controllable or uncontrollable shocks. Dogs in controllable condition: nearly 100% figure out how to escape shock. Uncontrollable condition: 1/3 figure it out most do not attempt to escape. Responses to setbacks: attribution theory: we all create spontaneous explanations for why things happen, two major dimensions: External: internal: something about me, my own actions caused this result, external: something beyond me caused the result that occurred. Stable vs. unstable: stable: something that cannot be changed, unstable: something that can be changed. I"m an idiot stable, internal response: someone up there doesn"t like me stable, external response. Unstable responses are more positive (tendency: internal vs. Individual natural attributional styles: can be modified, cognitive behavioral therapy (cbt, identify distorted or unreasonable beliefs, then modify them; draw more realistic conclusions objectivity.
