PSYC 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Fritz Heider, Learned Helplessness, Barista
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Barista gives you an extra shot of espresso in your drink. Causal attribution- way of linking an action to a cause. Attribution helps us makes sense of others and the world around us. Attribution theory studies how people understand the cases of events and other people. Internal attribution- specific to the person, i"m bad at math . Stable- cause is always the same and will happen again. Ex) barista gives you an extra shot of espresso. Possible cause: she had an extra shot already laying around. Learned helplessness- not trying to get out a situation because you have learned that you are helpless, don"t have power to escape situation. Ex) dogs chained and shocked, if no way to escape shocks, they won"t do anything and just get shocked. Caused by- internal, stable, global attribution (i"m stupid, everywhere all the time)- have internalized a message that may or may not be true.
