PSYC 2230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Motivation, Belongingness, Altruistic Suicide

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Assigning cause to an event to predict future behaviour. Learned helplessness = nothing organism can do to control the event, so it becomes passive and not act. Individual tries and tries and does not succeed has no control. Some assumed the role of guards or role of prisoners: once assigned, individuals identified with the role and act as if its natural, prisoners have no control of the situation, began to accept reluctantly how they are treated. Ivar lovaas = released from clinic and put into special homes (operant conditioning procedure did not carry forward, individuals begin to regress) People become helpless when they believe that they have no control over what happens to them. Further, abramson argues that people attribute their own lack of control to external or internal factors. Depressed individuals tend to attribute their lack of control to personal characteristics and this leads to emotional outcomes of low worth.

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