Learned Helplessness in Shuttlebox-Avoidance Behavior
- 1 August 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 51 (1) , 215-221
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1982.51.1.215
Abstract
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.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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