Psychology 2990A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Learned Helplessness, Treatment And Control Groups, Albert Bandura
29 Oct 2016
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Chapter 3 (5th ed) - psychology and health. Her resources for coping: the love b/w her and her husband, close relationship with her daughters, long-term friendships as well as new friendships. Also, a lot of resilience and determination, such as relying on cognitive abilities to stay active. There is more to health than germs and diseases; we also need to consider the amount of stress in our lives and how we deal with it. Residents in long-term health care facilities often become passive & withdrawn, and fade into death as if have given up b/c not given a chance to make daily life decisions. Holocaust survivors, particularly adolescents or young adults at the end of wwii, continued to experience negative psychological effects such as paranoia and depression more than 40 years after they were persecuted. The cruelty and abuse some first nations children suffered in residential schools continue to have traumatic effects on the survivors.
