learned helplessness

Learned helplessness: A theory for the age of personal control.

The ability to move gets suppressed, in a kind of learned helplessness.

Depression may also mean a person has learned helplessness or is not interested in anything.

There is a learned helplessness on the part of husbands and children, so you do everything yourself.

This, they reasoned, should force the brain to give up its learned helplessness.

For learned helplessness to occur, the event must be both traumatic and outside the dog's control.

His theory of learned helplessness is popular among scientific and clinical psychologists.

Children with severe disabilities can develop learned helplessness, which makes them lose interest in their environment.

They live (and die) in a fog of what the psychologists call learned helplessness.

It may have been learned helplessness, which is known to cause chronic and severe depression.

The interrogation techniques were used to create a feeling of learned helplessness in the detainees.

Finally, when opportunities to escape are presented, this learned helplessness prevents any action.

However, taking responsibility for negative events that are outside an individual's control is related to depression and learned helplessness, particularly in adolescents.

Learned helplessness sometimes remains specific to one situation, but at other times generalizes across situations.

All of these things work together to prevent the debilitating behaviors that are associated with learned helplessness.

Boredom can be a form of learned helplessness, a phenomenon closely related to depression.

Another theory draws on the principle of learned helplessness.

The model of learned helplessness has many appealing aspects and presents clear avenues for research.

"These frustrations can lead to a form of 'learned helplessness,' or a feeling that you are in a prison with no way out.

Learned helplessness is a term to explain a specific pattern of behavior that occurs in both animals and humans.

Another example of learned helplessness in social settings involves loneliness and shyness.

Learning that an aversive event can't be avoided nor escaped is called learned helplessness.

"An analysis of learned helplessness: Continuous changes in performance, strategy, and achievement cognitions following failure".

Learned helplessness occurs when an animal or human are exposed to stressors that they cannot control.

If these stressors are controlled, the phenomenon of learned helplessness does not occur.