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Learned Helplessness in Social Situations
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A study of learned helplessness in school children
… schools. 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 …
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A NEUROPHARMACOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF LEARNED HELPLESSNESS IN RAT (GENETICS).
… correlate 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 …
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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
… of victims, and 2) to investigate the potential learned responses associated with sibling abuse and their possible impact on adult relationships by exploring participants' emotional and relational histories, and belief systems. This study presents data taken from a clinical sample of six adult …
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The onset and alleviation of learned helplessness in older hospitalised people
… by assessing 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 …
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Internal-external attributions and learned helplessness among lower and middle class adults
… and 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 …
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The Impact Of Biculturalism On Human Learned Helplessness With Northern Plains Native Americans
… The 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 …
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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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The performance and cognitive self-statements of normal, depressed and bulimic women exposed to learned helplessness training
The current study investigated the impact of Learned Helplessness (LH) training on normal (N), depressed (D), and bulimic (B) female college students (N=135). Participants were selected through a screening procedure using an eating behavior questionnaire and the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI; …
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A Model Of Distress Tolerance In Self-Damaging Behaviors: Examining The Role Of Emotional Reactivity And Learned Helplessness
… support suggest that emotional reactivity and learned helplessness may be individual difference factors in distress tolerance. Specifically, individuals with high emotional reactivity and high learned helplessness may be at risk for low distress tolerance. Further research was needed to clarify …
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Inescapable Aversive Stimulus Decreases Subsequent Escape Responding in Humans: An Investigation of the Learned Helplessness Effect in a 3D Virtual Environment
… escapable aversive stimuli. This is known as the learned helplessness effect. In the present experiment, human participants were trained in an immersive, 3D virtual environment analog of an operant chamber using an inescapable aversive stimulus, an escapable aversive stimulus, or no aversive …
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Coping with stress: The Impact of the Hypothalamus Pituitary Adrenal (HPA) System and Neurotrophic Circuits in the Learned Helplessness Model of Depression
… models of depression. Working on a model such as Learned Helplessness, consequently requires careful consideration of modulating aspects to ensure representative results. This work aims at elucidating the role of recently postulated target genes of depression as well as the impact of potential …
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