作者: Miroslaw Kofta
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4613-8309-3_5
关键词: Control (linguistics) 、 Learned helplessness 、 Mental model 、 Developmental psychology 、 Test anxiety 、 Psychology 、 Prolonged exposure 、 Mechanism (biology) 、 Emotional distress 、 Phenomenon
摘要: It is well established that, after prolonged exposure to an uncontrollable situation, symptoms of learned helplessness (LH) emerge in humans as well as in infrahuman species: Performance of new tasks is seriously impaired and signs of emotional distress appear. Despite decades of intensive research, the causal mechanism underlying this fairly general behavioral phenomenon remains obscure.