Practice question · Multiple choice
Learned helplessness is not laziness. What distinguishes them?
Hints
- Ask what the dog learned during the inescapable phase.
- Why does it not try when escape becomes easy?
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A. That the animal has learned outcomes do not depend on its actions
Why
Something specific was learned and then over-applied. This is what makes the model relevant to depression: the belief that action is futile persists past the situation that taught it.
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