Psychology / Unit 9 Psych 1062 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Learned Helplessness
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The idea
Learned helplessness is a reduction in attempts to escape or improve a situation after repeated experience of uncontrollable outcomes.
In practice
Animals exposed to inescapable shock later failed to escape when escape became available.
Where people slip
Fifty years of neuroscience reversed the original reading. Passivity is the unlearned default; control is what gets learned.
Your place on the trail
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