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Module 4: Cognitive Theories Flashcards

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Fear

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+ fight or flight response
+ evolutionary adaptation
+ white with fear, trembling, faster breathing, increase in glucose, pupil dilate, hearing become more acute, digestive system stops, pressure to urinate, defecate, vomit to reduce waste materials

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Introjection

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direct all their feelings for the loved one, including sadness and anger, toward themselves

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Symbolic or Imagined Loss

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+ person equates other kinds of events with the loss of a loved one
+ does not necessarily involve death of a person

e.g., an athlete got injured and can no longer do
the sport they have been doing for a long time

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Introjected Loss

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involves the actual death of a person

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Attributional Style

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ways in which people explain the cause of events within their lives

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Types of Attributional Styles

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  1. Internal-External
  2. Stable-Unstable
  3. Global-Specific
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Internal-External

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+ who or what is responsible for the event
+ whether something unique about the person (internal) or something about the situation caused the event (external)

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Stable-Unstable

Attributional Styles

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+ perceived permanence of the cause
+ an event can be viewed as constant and likely to happen again (stable) or it only happens once (unstable)

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Global-Specific

Attributional Styles

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universal throughout your life (global) or specific to a part of your life (specific)

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Cognitive Theory of Depression

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+ persons susceptible to depression develop inaccurate/unhelpful core beliefs about themselves, others, and the world as a result of their learning histories
+ depressed people consistently think in illogical ways and keep arriving at self-defeating conclusions
+ tends to overgeneralize (draw broad negative conclusions on the basis of single insignificant event) [cognitive bias]

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Depressive Cognitive Triad

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+ depressed people make cognitive errors in thinking negatively about themselves, immediate world, and their future
+ series of negative events in childhood, individuals may develop deep-seated negative schema, an enduring negative cognitive-belief system about some aspect of life

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Beck Hopelessness Scale

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The Beck Hopelessness Scale (BHS) is a 20-item self-report inventory developed by Dr. Aaron T. Beck that was designed to measure three major aspects of hopelessness: feelings about the future, loss of motivation, and expectations. It is a true-false test is designed for adults, age 17–80.

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Negative Schema

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an enduring negative cognitive system about some aspects in life

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Self-Blame Schema

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people feel personally responsible for every bad happenings

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Negative Self-Evaluation Schema

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“can never do anything correctly”

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False Consensus Effect (False Consensus Bias)

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people tend to overestimate the extent to which their opinions, beliefs, preferences, values, and habits are normal and typical of the others (“Everyone shares the same opinion as me.”)

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What are the different negative cognitive styles?

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  1. Dichotomous Thinking/Absolutist/Black and White Thinking
  2. Overgeneralization
  3. Personalization
  4. Selective Abstraction
  5. Arbitrary Inference
  6. Labeling and Mislabeling
  7. Minimization
  8. Magnification
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Dichotomous Thinking/Absolutist/Black and White Thinking

Negative Cognitive Styles

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+ seeing only of the extremes of things, never the middle
+ “either I ace this test or fail”

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Overgeneralization

Negative Cognitive Styles

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+ making generalizations about a negative aspect
+ “I failed in physics class, I don’t think I’ll be able to graduate college”

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Personalization

Negative Cognitive Styles

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+ tendency for individuals to relate external events to themselves, even when there is no basis for making this connection
+ egocentric thinking, everything is about him
+ “It’s my fault as to why the kid cried.”

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Selective Abstraction

Negative Cognitive Styles

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+ focuses on the negative
+ detail is taken out of context and believed whilst everything else in the context is ignored
+ almost good feedback except for one/focused on that single feedback

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Arbitrary Interference

Negative Cognitive Styles

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+ evident when depressed individuals emphasize the negative rather than the positive aspects of a situation
+ only accepts negative thoughts
+ no logical reasoning
+ interpreting a situation when there is no factual evidence
+ passed, “chamba”, negative, “Is it my fault?”

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Labeling and Mislabeling

Negative Cognitive Styles

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+ portraying one’s identity on the basis of imperfections and mistakes made in the past and allowing them to define one’s true identity
+ e.g., bullied for being dark skinned, “I am ugly”

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Minimization

Negative Cognitive Styles

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+ downplaying the significance of an event or emotion
+ common strategy in dealing with feelings of guilt
+ e.g. “Parang nakakarami ka na ah.”
“Hala, nakakasampung bote pa lang.”

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Magnification

Negative Cognitive Styles

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+ effects of one’s behaviors are magnified
+ there is some stain on one’s clothes, “They might think I don’t do my laundry.”

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General Adaptation to Stress Theory

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understanding the relationship between stressful events and the body’s response to stress

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Important terms under general adaptation to stress theory

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+ Alarm
+ Resistance
+ Exhaustion

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Alarm

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fight-or-flight response

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Resistance

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coping mechanisms

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Exhaustion

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body defense resources are depleted

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Stress-Appraisal/Cognitive Appraisal Theory

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stress is a two-way process, it involves a production of stressors and the response of an individual subjected to these stressors

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Primary Appraisal

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+ an individual tends to ask questions like, “What does this stressors and/or situation mean?”, and “How can it influence me?”
+ understanding the stress

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Secondary Appraisal

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+ involves those feelings related to dealing with the stressor or the stress it produces
+ deals with the stressor
+ starts to assess internal and external resources available to solve the problem
+ Positive: “I can do it if I do my best.”
+ Negative: “I cannot do it.”

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Types of Memory Disorders

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  1. Anosognosia
  2. Confabulation
  3. Disorientation
  4. De Javu
  5. Jamais Vu
  6. Hypermnesia
  7. Paramnesia
  8. Amnesia
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Anosognosia

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no memories of his own illness

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Confabulation

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filling in memory gaps with imaginary experiences

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Disorientation

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cannot identify or recognize time, places, and persons

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De Javu

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unfamiliar perceived as familiar

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Jamais Vu

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familiar perceived as unfamiliar

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Hypermnesia

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increased memory

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Paramnesia

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false or perverted memory

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Amnesia

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loss of memory

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Types of Amnesia

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  1. Biogenic
  2. Psychogenic or Dissociative or Functional
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Biogenic

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caused by brain damage or disease

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Psychogenic or Dissociative or Functional

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caused by psychological trauma, repressed memories

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Types of Biogenic Amnesia

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  1. Retrograde
  2. Anterograde
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Retrograde Amnesia

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inability to retrieve information that was acquired before (remote memory loss)

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Anterograde

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inability to transfer new information from the short-term store to long-term store (recent memory loss)

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Types of Psychogenic or Dissociative or Functional Amnesia

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  1. Generalized
  2. Localized
  3. Selective
  4. Situation-Specific
  5. Global
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Generalized Amnesia

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origin is rare psychological disorder and spontaneous recovery from amnesia in a comparatively short period of time

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Localized

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no memory of specific events

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Selective Amnesia

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can only recall only small parts of events

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Situation-Specific Amnesia

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result of a severely stressful event, as part of PTSD

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Global Amnesia

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cannot recall both past and present; total memory loss

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Memory

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the process by which we encode, store, and retrieve information

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Types of Memory

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  1. Declarative
  2. Procedural
  3. Semantic
  4. Episodic
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Declarative Memory

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factual information

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Procedural Memory

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skills and habits

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Semantic Memory

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general knowledge and facts, logic

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Episodic Memory

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events that occur in a particular time, place, or context

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Three-System Approach to Memory

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information must travel if it is remembered

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Sensory

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initial storage of information as perceived by the senses

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Short-Term Memory

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holds info for 15 to 20 seconds

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Long-Term Memory

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stores on a relatively permanent basis, although at all times, it can be difficult to retrieve

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Chunks

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meaningful grouping of stimuli that can be stored as a unit in STM

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Rehearsal

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repetition of information that has entered the short-term memory

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Repetitive

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as long as it is repeated, it states the short-term memory

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Elaborative

Rehearsal

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transfers info to long-term memory

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Tip-of-the-Tongue Phenomenon

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inability to recall information that one realizes one knows

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Retrieval Cue

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allow us to recall more easily

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Recall

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memory task in which specific information is retrieved

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Recognition

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individual is presented with a stimulus and asked whether they have been exposed to it in the past or to identify it from the list of alternatives

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Levels-Of-Processing Theory

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degree to which new material is mentally analyzed

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Implicit Memory

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can be recalled automatically without thinking

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Explicit Memory

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requires conscious retrieval of information

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Constructive Processes

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memories are influenced by the meaning we give to them

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Autobiographical

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episodes from our own lives

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Flashbulb Memories

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specific or surprising events that are so vivid in memory it as if they represented a snapshot of the event

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Forgetting

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+ permits us to form general impressions and recollections
+ helps us avoid being burdened and distracted by trivial stores of meaningless data

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Failure of Encoding

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failure to pay attention and place information in memory

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Decay

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loss of information due to non-use

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Cue-Depending Forgetting

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insufficient retrieval cues

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Proactive Interference

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learned earlier disrupts the recall of newer material; you forget the new info

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Retroactive Interference

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difficulty in recalling info learned earlier because of later exposure to different material; you forget the old info

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Learned Helplessness

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+ Martin Seligman (and colleagues)
+ if they learn that nothing they do helps them avoid the shocks, they eventually become helpless, give up, and manifest an animal equivalent of depression
+ anxiety is the first response to a stressful situation

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Aaron T. Beck

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suggested that depression may result from a tendency to interpret everyday events in a negative way

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Lewinshon’s Behavioral Theory

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depression is caused by a combination of stressors in a person’s environment and a lack of personal skills

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