Learned helplessness

Learned helplessness occurs when a person is repeatedly exposed to an aversive stimuli and feels that no matter how much they try to escape; they are not successful. Therefore, they tend to cave in since a sense of being helpless has been developed to escape the situation. Early studies on the idea of learned helplessness occurred accidently since psychologists were initially studying avoidance learning in dogs. These dogs were subject to a few foot shocks and at first would attempt to escape the

Learned helplessness is something that a lot of people go through without knowing all of the factors that may trigger it. Learned helplessness is when someone suffers from powerlessness about repeated failing attempts to succeed. This paper will focus on some of things that are related to learned helplessness and a way to help reduce it, such as mental disorders, health problems, gender, job status, and race. One way to reduce it among women is counseling with another female. Learned helplessness

Learned helplessness is a mental disorder that affects many people in our society. The term learned helplessness was first used by Martin Seligman and Steven Maier in the 1960’s. Dictionary.com defines it as “a mental condition in which one becomes unable to help oneself due to previous failed attempts at controlling one’s life.” This is not a genetic disorder that can be passed down from family members, rather a learned behavior that develops due to environmental factors. Seligman and Maier’s research

Learned helplessness refers to an organism learning to accept and endure an aversive stimulus that it cannot escape even when it is avoidable. This theory shows that having some control over our lives is preferable to no control at all. Based on the original theory of learned helplessness, one of the key factors in Seligman’s theory were uncontrollability and repeated cruelty or neglect. Based on many experiments done by Seligman, controllability determines if one is suffering from learned helplessness

Here we discuss research of Indian writers SURAJ MAL, UDAY JAIN and K. S. YADAV, which is called “Effects of Prolonged Deprivation on Learned Helplessness”. This study article consists of 8 pages. This is a correlational study and it has quantitative character. The article consists of next sections: Abstract, Introduction, Method (this part also consists of such subsections as Subjects, PDS, Tasks, and Procedure), Results, Discussion, and References. Independent variables of the study are gender

else. In the realm of positive psychology, it is important that a number of different scientific discoveries work together to explain an overarching topic. For example, two studies that are interrelated are Martin Seligman’s exploration of learned helplessness, and Roy Baumeister’s study on willpower depletion. Both are important in their own rights, but by comparing both Seligman and Baumeister’s experiments, scientists can discuss the overarching concept of willpower as a depletable resource.

A Patient's Rights to Refuse Treatment and How it Relates to Learned Helplessness of Individuals The concept of learned helplessness was first suggested by M. Seligman an animal psychologist, in 1975. During a series of experiments involving rats and dogs, he discovered that the animals which had some control over their environment (in being able to prevent a series of electric shocks) would always try to avoid the undesirable stimulus; whereas the

Depression The redevelopment of the theory of learned helplessness helped create the hopelessness model of depression (Miserandino, 2012, p. 282). The hopelessness model of depression is the concept that someone believes they truly lack control of their personal situation. This lack of control creates a form of helplessness in the face of a negative event in the present. In concurrence with this belief, the additional belief of having helplessness continue in the future can cause a person to feel

is a learning style or a cognitive skill that can be learned. Optimism is different than hope, contended Snyder (1994) as it contains a proactive component

chance/luck. This concept is associated with the ‘Learned helplessness explanation’ (Abramson et al., 1978; Maier & Seligman, 1976). What this explanation proposes is that participant’s attribute the uncontrollability of a situation to internal dispositions i.e., they display an internal locus of control, and, by extension, denote failure as a result of not having any control over the situation. Contrastingly, individuals who don’t succumb to the learned helplessness effect are those who place failure outside