"Helplessness, Learned" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Learned expectation that one's responses are independent of reward and, hence, do not predict or control the occurrence of rewards. Learned helplessness derives from a history, experimentally induced or naturally occurring, of having received punishment/aversive stimulation regardless of responses made. Such circumstances result in an impaired ability to learn. Used for human or animal populations. (APA, Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms, 1994)
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D006380
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| MeSH Number(s) |
F01.393.398 F02.463.425.420
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Helplessness, Learned" by people in Profiles.
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Monocausal attribution and its relationship with reasoning biases in schizophrenia. Schizophr Res. 2018 03; 193:77-82.
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Mice subjected to uncontrollable electric shocks show depression-like behaviors irrespective of their state of helplessness. Behav Brain Res. 2017 03 30; 322(Pt A):138-144.