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Directed by
Charisse Nixon, Ph.D Developmental Psychologist
Featuring
Charisse Nixon, Ph.D and students
Description
Learned helplessness as a technical term in animal psychology, means a condition of an animal in which it has learned to behave helplessly, even when the opportunity is restored for it to help itself by avoiding an unpleasant or harmful circumstance to which it has been subjected. Learned helplessness theory is the view that clinical depression and related mental illnesses result from a perceived absence of control over the outcome of a situation (Seligman, 1975).
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