Learned Helplessness
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Learned helplessness is a reduction in attempts to escape or improve a situation after repeated experience of uncontrollable outcomes.
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Animals exposed to inescapable shock later failed to escape when escape became available.
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Fifty years of neuroscience reversed the original reading. Passivity is the unlearned default; control is what gets learned.
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