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Showing 1 to 20 of 165 for “"Helplessness"”.
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Learned Helplessness in Social Situations
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Conditioned Helplessness and Human Escape Behavior
… undertaken to determine, first, whether or not "helplessness" can be conditioned in human subjects, and, secondly, the amount of behavioral variability that can be accounted for in terms of locus of control as measured by Rotter's Internal-External control scale (I-E scale).
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A study of learned helplessness in school children
… It focussed on the phenomenon of Learned Helplessness, a factor that seemed likely to account for some school learning problems. In the course of the study, instruments and procedures that might be used to identify learned helpless school learners were developed and trialled and an …
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Metacognitive intervention for the alleviation of learned helplessness
… professional development workshops - on learned helplessness, self-efficacy, and metacognition - would impact teachers' beliefs in their capacity to address students' helplessness. The underlying assumption was that, with deeper understanding of the theoretical background upon which instructional …
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A NEUROPHARMACOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF LEARNED HELPLESSNESS IN RAT (GENETICS).
… to the behavioral deficits seen in learned helplessness (LH). The fact that antidepressant drugs reverse the deficits seen in a helpless rat, strongly suggests that the deficit is due to some neurochemical imbalance. This imbalance could be due to either the uncontrollable stressor or …
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Development and Validation of the Helplessness Self-Statement Inventory
… of a self-statement instrument measuring learned helplessness in college age students in academic achievement situations. The study involves the construction of a model of learned helplessness for this population; the generation and selection of items for the instrument, the Helplessness …
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An Analysis of Learned Helplessness: The Processing of Success
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The effects of cognitive coping strategies on learned helplessness
… and response-contingent reinforcement served as helplessness induction controls. All subjects were then tested on an anagram task. Performance, affective and attributional data were collected. Subjects receiving inoculation pretreatment performed similarly to helplessness induction controls on …
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The generality of learned helplessness theory: effect of electroconvulsive shock
While the learned helplessness effect has been reliably found in dogs and other species (e.g., cats, mice, fish, and humans), it has been somewhat difficult to obtain in rats. In addition, it has been demonstrated that electroconvulsive shock (ECS) reverses learned helplessness in dogs, but ECS …
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Childhood Experiences of Sibling Abuse: An investigation into learned helplessness
As various forms of interpersonal family violence receive more attention in the literature, sibling abuse is still in the background. Despite the increasing knowledge about the prevalence, causes, and effects of sibling abuse, many of us continue to relegate it to a childhood occurrence. Sibling …
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The onset and alleviation of learned helplessness in older hospitalised people
… the extent to which the theories of Learned Helplessness (LH), (Seligman, 1975) and Learned Mastery (LM), (Peterson, Maier & Seligman, 1993) are relevant to these links. This involved investigating the onset of Learned Helplessness induced dependence and Learned Mastery induced independence. …
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Network mechanisms underlying susceptibility to helplessness and response to the antidepressant fluoxetine
… to determine the neurophysiologic correlates of helplessness susceptibility. This was examined via measurement of regional brain metabolic capacity and functional connectivity within relevant neural circuits, and measurements of corticosterone and heart rate. These effects were studied in rats …
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Internal-external attributions and learned helplessness among lower and middle class adults
… Teasdale's (1978) reformulation of the learned helplessness hypothesis. Specifically, the study employed a laboratory paradigm to investigate: (a) whether attributions about uncontrollable events mediate subsequent deficits, particularly self-esteem loss; and (b) if lower socio-economic class …
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The Impact Of Biculturalism On Human Learned Helplessness With Northern Plains Native Americans
… failure feedback represented a standard learned helplessness paradigm with the dependent measures focused on the interferences and behavior of he participants in response to feedback from either a Native American or European American researcher. A total of 55 Native Americans and 73 European …
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Therapists’ experiences of helplessness; an interpretative phenomenological exploration of the experiences of Egyptian cognitive behavioral practitioners
… are frequently brought face to face with the helplessness of clients as well as their own. The main aims of this research are: • To explore therapists’ own definitions of helplessness. • To explore therapists’ experiences of helplessness in their personal and professional lives. • To explore …
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Effects of a learned helplessness task and infant temperament on mothers' responsivity to infant cry sounds
Mothers' susceptibility to the effects of learned helplessness as a function of the perception of her own infants' temperament and exposure to varying degrees of control over infant crying was explored. Seventysix mothers were classified as having a difficult or easy infant based upon ratings of …
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