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    Helpless means unable to help oneself; weak or dependent, but Learned Helplessness is the act of giving up trying as a result of consistent failure in the past. Martin E. P. Seligman and Steven F. Maier accidently found the shocking discovery of learned helplessness. Seligman first was looking into studying of avoidance learning with dogs, but later found out that there was more than meets the eye and started asking different questions. By creating three groups: escape group, yoked group, and…

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    Learned helplessness is considered to be a form of giving up, which is a common coping pattern that has limited value. It is considered to be a passive behaviour to what are thought to be unavoidable events. Seligman and colleagues conducted a research study on learned helplessness which caused him to change his perspective on what is was a product of. He originally thought it was a result of conditioning; however, his current model suggests that people’s cognitive interpretation, how they…

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    Since the original learned helplessness experiments, the phenomenon has been applied to several areas of human behavior, including (1) Depression (Seligman, 1975; Seligman, 1976); (2) elderly adults and old-age homes (Langer & Rodin, 1976); (3) domestic violence and abusive relationships; and (4) drug abuse and addiction. Studies have found that a true inability to control the environment is not necessary for learned helplessness to occur. In fact, even when told there is nothing a person can…

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    present approach attributes helplessness to difficulties encountered at an early stage of action development, when an organism attempts to derive an anticipatory action program for the successful guidance of future activity. According to the current theory, the essential feature of helplessness training is repeatedly experiencing the inability to derive such a program by means of hypothesis-testing activity. The researchers conducted a study to test the proposal that helplessness symptoms stem…

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    the hurtful reality? Are some things we simply shouldn’t poke fun at? Martin Seligman, a psychologist, once conducted an experiment for further research on classical conditioning. Using dogs and electrical shocks, he developed a new theory: learned helplessness. “Failure to take steps to avoid or escape from an unpleasant or aversive stimulus that occurs as a result of previous exposure to unavoidable painful stimuli.” (Morris, C.) In layman’s terms, the more we are exposed to negativity, the…

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    points that Dr. Cloud presented was learned helplessness, the three P’s, and reverse learned helplessness. Dr. Cloud presented information I did not know prior to my reading. The information was very thought provoking. As I reflect upon my own seasons of inactivity, I have come to understand that I suffered from the principles Dr. Cloud asserts in this portion of the book. In my previous pastorate, the church suffered from what Dr. Cloud calls learned helplessness. By the time I arrived,…

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    way people view power and control is learned from previous experiences. He proposed that those who fail at controlling their own life stop attempting to exercise any control of their own altogether. After repeated attempts of control and repeated failures, people start to attribute these failures to a lack of control and generalize lack of control to all situations, even if those situations are controllable. This feeling of lack of control turns into helplessness and becomes depression. With…

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    is lived in, while with the other three perspectives, the biggest influence is the internal needs of the individual (Boyd & Bee, 2015). Along with the social-cognitive perspective comes characteristics such as personal control, self-control, learned helplessness, and optimism.…

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    Social-cognitive perspective is a psychological perspective that examines how people interpret, analyze, remember and use information about themselves, others, social interactions, and relationships. It has a less individualistic bias because it views personality as emerging through the process of the person interacting with her or his social environment. This perspective has its roots in the behavioral principles of classical conditioning and operant conditioning. (Franzoi) Social cognitive…

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    Aetiology Of Depression

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    uncontrollable events unlike a study conducted by Lazurus (1966) which looked at the effects of stress and proposed that depression caused by stress is dependent on a situation as well as the individual involved. Seligman and his colleagues reformed the learned helplessness model to account for attributions individuals make to describe their worlds (Seligman, Abramson, & Teasdale, 1978). It was contended that those predisposed to develop depression associate negative outcomes to internal factors…

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