Psychological explanation of depression - Learned hopelessness
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- Created on: 29-03-13 11:09
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- Seligman's theory reformulated from learned helplessness
- Suggestion that when people experience failure they usually try to attribute the failure to a cause. Internal-external (personal or enviroment). Stable- unstable (always or just on this occasion),global-specific (all encompassing or just specific to this situation) - give examples
- A maladaptive attributional style would involve attributing all negative events to internal, stable and global. Lead to negative expectations and feelings…
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