Psychology 2035A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Internet Addiction Disorder, Occupational Stress, Prosocial Behavior

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2035A/B
• Professor: Doug Hazlewood

Document Summary

Coping: efforts to master, reduce, and tolerate the demands created by stress. Ones review found over 400 distinct coping techniques. It is best to use a variety of coping strategies rather than just one. Its argued that flexibility in tactics is more desirable than consistently relying on the same strategy. Flexibility copers can differentiate among stressful events in terms of controllability and impact. Coping strategies vary in their adaptive value, as not all strategies are created equal. Learned helplessness: passive behavior produced by exposure to unavoidable aversive events. When confronted with stress, sometimes an individual may give up and withdraw from the battle. Apathy and inaction associated with emotional reactions of sadness and dejection. This tendency to give up may be transferred to situations in which one is not actually helpless. Learned helplessness was originally viewed as a product of conditioning. Cu(cid:396)(cid:396)e(cid:374)t (cid:373)odel p(cid:396)oposes that people"s (cid:272)og(cid:374)iti(cid:448)e i(cid:374)te(cid:396)p(cid:396)etatio(cid:374) of a(cid:448)e(cid:396)si(cid:448)e e(cid:448)ents determines whether they develop learned helplessness.