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- Oct 6, 2024
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Learned helplessness was a (somewhat cruel) experiment in which dogs were exposed to a series of inescapable electric currents in which they were then unable to learn a new instrumental behavior as simple as the jumping response to escape or avoid an electric shock. What they did was to stand in a corner passively enduring the shocks.
When an individual has an uncontrollable (i.e., inescapable and unavoidable) aversive experience, a series of disturbances and deficits occur that interfere with or prevent subsequent learning of new responses.
This showed that in addition to a motivational deficit there was also a cognitive deficit in which helpless subjects made more errors during other learning with respect to those who did not have learned helplessness.
Well I think I have some learned helplessness because I went through physical experiences where I simply had to hold on or wait it out to continue doing other things. I don't know if this is really true but I think it affects something. I took refuge in studying (at school, high school, university and conservatory) and I am pretty good at it but it is true that I make mistakes (or at least I give importance to mistakes).
That's life, it gives me tests to survive or to suffer.
This is the source: https://www.psicoactiva.com/blog/la-indefension-aprendida-experimento-overmier-seligman/
When an individual has an uncontrollable (i.e., inescapable and unavoidable) aversive experience, a series of disturbances and deficits occur that interfere with or prevent subsequent learning of new responses.
This showed that in addition to a motivational deficit there was also a cognitive deficit in which helpless subjects made more errors during other learning with respect to those who did not have learned helplessness.
Well I think I have some learned helplessness because I went through physical experiences where I simply had to hold on or wait it out to continue doing other things. I don't know if this is really true but I think it affects something. I took refuge in studying (at school, high school, university and conservatory) and I am pretty good at it but it is true that I make mistakes (or at least I give importance to mistakes).
That's life, it gives me tests to survive or to suffer.
This is the source: https://www.psicoactiva.com/blog/la-indefension-aprendida-experimento-overmier-seligman/