Learned Helplessness/Attribution

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• Author and psychologist

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• Positive psychology

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• University of Pennsylvania

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• When you are exposed to something that you can't get away from so much that you stop avoiding it

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• Dogs were shocked when they herd a tone
• The dogs were placed in a box and one side had an electric floor
• The dogs didn't even try to move away from the electric shock

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• Made the attribution theory

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• Social psychology

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• Los Angeles

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• It explains the cause and effect behavior

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• Loss of control
• Stability
• Controllability

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• Learned helplessness is directly related to attribution
• The dogs didn't try to move because they couldn't control the shock
• Attribution explains why learned helplessness happens