Examples of learned helplessness in the following topics:
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- Learned optimism refers to the development of one's potential for this optimized outlook; it is the belief that one can influence the future in tangible and meaningful ways.
- In contrast, learned helplessness is the belief that one has no control over the events in one's life.
- Learned helplessness is associated with depression and anxiety, both of which threaten a person's physical and mental well-being; it can also contribute to poor health when people neglect diet, exercise, and medical treatment, falsely believing they have no power to change.
- Research suggests that optimism and positive outlooks are associated with increased health and well-being, while pessimism and learned helplessness decrease health.
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- The second definition refers to reforming mental hospitals' institutional processes so as to reduce or eliminate reinforcement of dependency, hopelessness, learned helplessness, and other maladaptive behaviors.
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- Albert Bandura is a behavioral psychologist credited with creating social learning theory.
- Cognitive processes refer to all characteristics previously learned, including beliefs, expectations, and personality characteristics.
- Julian Rotter is a clinical psychologist who was influenced by Bandura's social learning theory after rejecting a strict behaviorist approach.
- An external locus of control may relate to learned helplessness, a behavior in which an organism forced to endure painful or unpleasant stimuli becomes unable or unwilling to avoid subsequent encounters with those stimuli, even if they are able to escape.
- Evidence has supported the theory that locus of control is learned and can be modified.
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- PTSD is believed to be caused by experiencing any of a wide range of events which produces intense negative feelings of "fear, helplessness, or horror" in the observer or participant.
- In CBT, individuals learn to identify thoughts that make them feel afraid or upset and replace them with less distressing thoughts.
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- In turn, this resulted in shorter gestation (as babies need to be born before their heads become too large), and more helpless infants who are not fully developed before birth.
- The ability of the human brain to continue to grow after birth meant that social learning and language were possible.
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- Whippings, executions, and rapes were commonplace, and slaves were usually denied educational opportunities, such as learning how
to read or write.
- Ensure that the
slave is uneducated, helpless, and dependent by depriving them of access to
education and recreation.
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- The preexisting vulnerability can be either genetic, implying an interaction between nature and nurture, or schematic, resulting from views of the world learned in childhood.
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- In CBT, individuals learn to identify thoughts that make them feel afraid or upset and replace them with less distressing thoughts.
- Complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD) is a psychological injury that results from exposure to prolonged social and/or interpersonal trauma in the context of dependence, captivity, or entrapment (a situation lacking a viable escape route for the victim), which results in the lack or loss of control, helplessness, and deformations of identity and sense of self.
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- Understanding how learning and behavior work in the reward circuit of the brain can help in understanding drug-seeking behavior and addiction.
- Treatments for addiction usually involve planning for specific ways to avoid the addictive stimulus and/or therapeutic interventions intended to help a client learn healthier ways to find satisfaction.
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- In order to be diagnosed, the person must allow others to take over and run their life; is submissive, clingy, and fears separation; cannot make decisions without advice and reassurance from others; lacks self-confidence; cannot do things on their own; and/or feels uncomfortable or helpless when alone.
- Under the environmental theory, OCPD is seen as a learned behavior.