Learned Helplessness
Any animal which has realized it has no control over its own actions after dealing with pain or abuse with no escape for an extended amount of time a person or other animal has learned to be helpless. Through no fault of ones own inescapable punishments encircle ones life and flight from that inevitable punishment soon permeates ones mind resulting in no escape and no way to decipher between good and bad actions and in most cases learning is severely impaired.. They can only await their inevitable punishment, external or internal, through no reason nor fault of their own.
Cases of learned helplessness exhibit the lack of response to a preventable situation. If the chance of an outcome is the same whether or not a given response occurs, then the outcome is independent of the response. When this is true of …show more content…
The perception of their actions being extremely strict guidelines without in some way showing the hope needed in order to actually fulfill objectives. One feels as if there is simply no choice involved in their actions anymore. As with many psychological concepts this theory differs between all individuals and personal situations, however generalizations persist and show a trend in similar behaviors through the learning process (Elham, M. Nasrollah, E. (2014).
In learned helplessness the person or other animal only has to expect that a consequence in unavoidable in order to show the traits of learned helplessness. (Seligman, 1978) It creates adverse effects to ones education, health, and even life. Learned helplessness is prevalent through parenting, all forms of education, in humans, and in dogs, cats, and many other animals. Learned helplessness can eventually force failure in education and even life as a sense of hopelessness is clearly evident through the previous perceptions of an
Any animal which has realized it has no control over its own actions after dealing with pain or abuse with no escape for an extended amount of time a person or other animal has learned to be helpless. Through no fault of ones own inescapable punishments encircle ones life and flight from that inevitable punishment soon permeates ones mind resulting in no escape and no way to decipher between good and bad actions and in most cases learning is severely impaired.. They can only await their inevitable punishment, external or internal, through no reason nor fault of their own.
Cases of learned helplessness exhibit the lack of response to a preventable situation. If the chance of an outcome is the same whether or not a given response occurs, then the outcome is independent of the response. When this is true of …show more content…
The perception of their actions being extremely strict guidelines without in some way showing the hope needed in order to actually fulfill objectives. One feels as if there is simply no choice involved in their actions anymore. As with many psychological concepts this theory differs between all individuals and personal situations, however generalizations persist and show a trend in similar behaviors through the learning process (Elham, M. Nasrollah, E. (2014).
In learned helplessness the person or other animal only has to expect that a consequence in unavoidable in order to show the traits of learned helplessness. (Seligman, 1978) It creates adverse effects to ones education, health, and even life. Learned helplessness is prevalent through parenting, all forms of education, in humans, and in dogs, cats, and many other animals. Learned helplessness can eventually force failure in education and even life as a sense of hopelessness is clearly evident through the previous perceptions of an