Learned helplessness

• Seligman and Maier’s classic study (1967)

• Latent inhibition explanations: Learned irrelevance of responding

• Treatment by forced success experiences

• Inoculation by early success experiences

  • Childhood competence vs. inferiority
  • Classroom success in early childhood education
  • What about early sexual experiences? Abuse?

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