Which cognitive event is hypothesized as contributing to the development and maintenance of major depression?

a. self-efficacy
b. learned helplessness
c. reciprocal determinism
d. all-or-none thinking
e. an internal locus of control

b. learned helplessness

Psychology

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a complete panic where all control is lost having a sudden onset panic attack a warming up cry with mild distress a cry that expels a large volume of air through the vocal cords

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Which of the following statements regarding Kagan's research on shyness is FALSE?

A) Kagan found that shy infants facing unfamiliar situations experience decreases in their heart rates compared to other children. B) Kagan argues that low thresholds of arousal in the limbic system and the hypothalamus influence the experience of shyness. C) Kagan found that shy infants were at an increased risk of developing social phobia as adolescents. D) Kagan observed that 16-week-old infants who responded negatively to unfamiliar stimuli were very shy by four years of age.

Psychology