Mental Health and Learned Helplessness

Mental Health and Learned Helplessness

Martin Seligman and Steven F. Maier, psychologists, accidently developed the notion of learned helplessness. They had first noticed such behaviour in dogs that had been trained to expect an electrical shock when they heard a tone. The dogs were eventually placed in a shuttlebox with two chambers separated by a modest barrier. One half of …

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