People & Their Experiments

Cards (3)

  • Learned Helplessness: Occurs when people feel helpless to avoid negative situations
    • Seligman and Maier determined this through experimenting on dogs who withstood pain because they felt as if they couldn't escape
  • Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy: Helping people understand how unhealthy thoughts and beliefs create emotional distress and regretable actions
    • Studied by Albert Ellis
  • Rosenhan Study: Experiment conducted to determine the validity of psychiatric diagnosis
    • People faked having mental illnesses to be accepted into psychiatric institutions