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Personality
Depression
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Psychology
Undergraduate 2
05/10/2011

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Learned Helplessness
Definition
SELIGMAN - learning noncontingency that basically outcomes are noncontingent on your behavior
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Reformulated L.H. Models
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ABRAMSON, SELIGMAN - not all ppl respond with depression after being exposed to uncontrollable outcomes. Diathesis, vulnerability factor, + stress, and neither alone, lead to L.H.
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Attributional Style
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if it is internal, stable, and global for failure and the opposite for success, more likely to be depressed
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Hopelessness Model
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ABRAMSON - broader array of vulnerability factors. diathesis x stress --> hopelessness --> depression. you may not need internal attributions, emphasized stable and global
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Rumination
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NOLEN AND HOEKSANA - non depressed ppl ruminate on their own. increased depressed mood in normals. exacerbating factor in depr.
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Cognitive Expectancy Theory of Therapy
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There is a "final common pathway" - negatice expectations for near and distant future play a central role, become mediators for depression. effective intervention must teach compensatory cognitive behav strategies (focus on expecations rather than attributions). ppl arent very effected by paired stimulation unless they recognize that events are correlated. Expectancies not necesseraly tied to attributions, may cause self-fulfilling prophecies
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Outcome Expectancy
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BANDURA - estimate behavior lead to certain outcomes. Also Efficacy Expectancy - conviction can successfully execute to produce outcome
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Automatic Thoughts
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part of BECK'S Cognitive Model - depressed ppl have negative auto thoughts, hold negative problematic beliefs about self, future, world (Negative Triad)
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De-Centering
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BECK - you can de-center from neg. auto thoughts, remove self from them. they are not me, just thoughts in my mind
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Future Events Schemas
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ANDERSON - if you take depr. vs. normals and ask whether bad event will hapen, depr. were much more certain, answer more quickly
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Beck's Cognitive Model
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Therapists should demonstrate nonspecific therapy skills and should be able to communicate with openness, genuinness, and warmth. skilled at seeing through subjects perspective. reason logically and plan strategies. are active --- important not to assume auto thoughts are distorted. Reattribution - review events and apply logic to make more realistic assess. underlying assumptions much more difficult to id than auto thoughts
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Abramson's Study
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nondepres. ppl wildly overestimated their own odds, but would work really hard to make it happen. u can change odds for self. GOTLIB - both depres. and remitted depres. orient towards frowning face.
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