Practice question · Sort into groups
Sort each statement about learned helplessness as accurate or a misconception.
Groups: Accurate · Misconception
- It disappears the instant escape becomes possible
- It is simply laziness or a lack of effort
- The animal has learned that nothing it does makes any difference
- It informed cognitive models of depression
- The passivity generalizes to new, escapable situations
Hints
- The core is a learned belief about controllability that GENERALIZES, even when circumstances change.
- If it vanished the moment escape was possible, the dogs would not have kept enduring the shocks.
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Accurate: The animal has learned that nothing it does makes any difference, The passivity generalizes to new, escapable situations, It informed cognitive models of depression
Misconception: It is simply laziness or a lack of effort, It disappears the instant escape becomes possible
Why
Accurate: it is a learned expectation of uncontrollability that generalizes and informs depression models. Misconceptions: that it is mere laziness or that it lifts the instant escape is possible - both contradicted by the dogs continuing to endure escapable shocks.
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