Learned helplessness is when we find ourselves exposed to an unpleasant stimulus or situation that we cannot change and therefore begin to behave in a helpless way since the situation is inevitable. Learned helplessness derived from animal psychology research in 1965 by psychologist Martin Seligman, as time has passed we have seen learned helpless in humans as well through stress, anxiety and frustration. In Seligman’s study, he performed on dogs in order to understand their behavior through Pavlov’s classical conditioning experiment. As the study went on, Martin realized the dogs understood the shocks were administered randomly. He wanted to see if, via the shock noise, the dogs would jump out but instead they “learned” otherwise and didn’t
