Learned+Helplessness

toc = Definition: = A passive resignation to aversive conditions that is learned through repeated exposure to inescapable or unavoidable aversive events. Gen Psych Chapter 5, pp. 152

= Examples: = In Overmeier and Seligman's experiment with dogs and electric shocks, the experimental group of dogs stopped trying to escape the electric shock because they knew it was on both sides of the floor; they were exhibiting learned helplessness.

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= Mnemonics: = LEARNED HELPlessness - you have LEARNED that nothing HELPs

=In the News:= [|Don’t be a victim of learned helplessness] An interesting point of view on learned helplessness by a blogger. This anonymous writer encourages readers to overcome and not give in to learned helplessness, but to try everything to escape an aversive situation or lifestyle...maybe they should've talked to the dogs in the box!

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