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Learned Helplessness in People

Christopher Peterson, Steven F. Maier, Martin E. P. Seligman

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Abstract As we spelled out in Chapter 2, the controversy with regard to animal helplessness revolves around the adequacy of the learned helplessness model to explain the deficits produced in the laboratory by uncontrollability. In contrast, researchers investigating helplessness in people have proceeded differently, and controversy with regard to human helplessness reflects different issues. Human helplessness research started with an explanation for why people show deficits following uncontrollability: the cognitive account known as the learned helplessness model. The task of the researcher has been to produce in the laboratory the phenomenon explained by this model.

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Key concepts: Learned helplessness, Psychology, Phenomenon, Developmental psychology, Cognitive psychology, Animal model, Task (project management), Social psychology