2L8 - Control and Efficacy

Question 1

Shuttle box escape and avoidance learning with dogs

Answer 1

Introducing stress to see how they control it

Question 2

Learned helplessness effect

Answer 2

A perceived real absence of control in circumstances

Question 3

Learned helplessness occurs when

Answer 3

There is no relation between R and C

Question 4

Learned helpless

Answer 4

experience with non-contingency interferes with learning about contingencies

Question 5

What impacts ability to deal with uncontrollable stressors?

Answer 5

Attribution styles

Question 6

LH links with……. and examples of how

Answer 6

Depression

Question 7

Are depressed people better or worse at predicting contingencies ?

Answer 7

Better

Question 8

Depressive realism

Answer 8

Much more accurate idea as to how much control they have in their lives

Question 9

Why does optimism make you more likely to be successful?

Answer 9

More risk taking, pathway to success

Question 10

Downside to optimism bias

Answer 10

Devaluing of risk (Smoking).

Question 11

Dunning-Kruger effect

Answer 11

Cognitive bias wherein people of low ability suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their cognitive ability as greater than it is.