Functional neuroanatomy of learned helplessness

Functional neuroanatomy of learned helplessness.

In the experiments reported here, female subjects were presented with reasoning tasks that changed from solvable to unsolvable, evoking "learned helplessness" or "loss of control" reactions in some subjects. Significant differences in slow cortical potential (SCP) changes were found between emotionally highly and lowly reactive subjects (grouped according to responses in postexperimental questi...

LEARNED HELPLESSNESS Learned Helplessness

Learned Helplessness is an important concept to understand because it provides a foundation in theory developments. This concept is considered a personality trait of one who feels hopeless; their responses are unimportant and lose control of external environment. Understanding the definition will help health professionals in nursing and psychology. In both disciplines, understanding learned hel...

The Functional Neuroanatomy of Helplessness Vulnerability

Running head : LEARNED HELPLESSNESS ANAYLSIS 1 Learned Helplessness Analysis

The concept of learned helplessness is the idea that people learn to give up on themselves after experiencing failure or disappointment. These individuals develop the mentality that change is not possible and the emotion of powerless overcomes them. Many patients seen in the healthcare settings today display this type of attitude or demeanor. Assessing and treating are key notions to dealing wi...

Learned helplessness and generalization

In learned helplessness experiments, subjects first experience a lack of control in one situation, and then show learning deficits when performing or learning another task in another situation. Generalization, thus, is at the core of the learned helplessness phenomenon. Substantial experimental and theoretical effort has been invested into establishing that a stateand task-independent belief ab...