Learned Optimism Analysis

Noran Mohamed

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Learned optimism

I`m going to start with example and say . Imagine you take two dogs and put them in two different areas you shock the first dog and you give him an option to escape he tries to escape he's successful and he gets away from the shocks the second dog however you put in a place where no matter what he does he cannot escape the shocks he soon figures out that there's nothing he can do he gives up and he'll just sit there and accept the shocks now you take these two dogs and put them in two new areas again but this time they can both escape the first dog who had learned that he was able to escape will get out of there like usual but the second dog will just lay there and accept the shocks even though in this new environment he could just escape this is what is known as learned helplessness you probably know people who act like the helpless dog the opposite of this is learned optimism learned optimism is basically the idea that you can learn to be optimistic and positive and happy you can cultivate these things and this is exactly what Seligman was trying to do by running a workshop the results of the workshop were promising 32% of the students in the control group had a moderate to severe episode of depression in contrast to 22% of the group that was in the workshop also 15% of the controls had an episode of generalized anxiety disorder versus only 7% of people who took the workshop they also found that it was the change from

Martin slimming actually found that there is a reduced chance for cancer in optimist pessimist on the other hand give up more frequently are more prone to depression and have a mindset that they hate life in fact pessimists are more likely to get ill

After a bad event because there are hormones that connect the mindset of the person to their immune system and a negative