Psychology
Psychology
5th Edition
ISBN: 9780134715308
Author: Ciccarelli
Publisher: PEARSON
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Summary Introduction

Introduction:

Martin Seligman developed a phenomenon called as Learned helplessness which states that the tendency to fail to act to escape from a situation because of a history of repeated failures in the past. Steven F. Maier was the colleague and coresearcher of Seligman, revisited the phenomenon of learned helplessness from a neuroscientific point of view, and His work has developed some new understandings.

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