People & Their Experiments

• 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