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Unit 8: Abnormal Psych
People & Their Experiments
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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