The learned helplessness hypothesis: A framework in disguise

1984 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. A. Bekerian
Keyword(s):  
Learned Helplessness ◽  
Helplessness Hypothesis

Aggression during Learned-Helplessness Pretraining as a Coping Response

1981 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 471-485
Author(s):  
Michael J. Follick
Keyword(s):  
Inescapable Shock ◽  
Learned Helplessness ◽  
Coping Response ◽  
Adaptive Function ◽  
Escapable Shock ◽  
Helplessness Hypothesis

This study examined the effects of the opportunity to aggress during pretraining for learned helplessness. While rats individually given inescapable shock showed deficits in subsequent chain-pull escape, the performance of rats given inescapable shock in pairs did not differ from that of animals exposed to escapable shock or no shock. These results are interpreted as contrary to the prediction of the learned-helplessness hypothesis and are consistent with the notion that shock-induced aggression serves an adaptive function.

Learned Helplessness in Shuttlebox-Avoidance Behavior

1982 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 215-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. M. Cotton ◽  
A. Benger ◽  
L. Fyfe ◽  
K. Moorehouse ◽  
R. Russell
Keyword(s):  
Learned Helplessness ◽  
Avoidance Behavior ◽  
Prior Experience ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Avoidance Task ◽  
Shuttlebox Avoidance ◽  
Skinner Box ◽  
Helplessness Hypothesis ◽  
Better Than

Three groups of rats ( n = 6) were given prior experience in a Skinner box before being trained in a two-way shuttlebox-avoidance task. Subjects experiencing controllable shock (avoidable or escapable) performed significantly better than a yoked control group which had no control over shocks in the Skinner box and better than a control group which experienced no shock in the Skinner box. Results can be interpreted adequately in terms of the learned helplessness hypothesis proposed by Maier, Seligman, and Solomon.

Transfer of "Learned Helplessness" Effects to an Appetitive Task

1975 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larry A. Engberg ◽  
Martin I. Golding ◽  
Joseph R. Volpicelli
Keyword(s):  
Learned Helplessness
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