Question

Martin seligman, whose experiments led to the theory of learned helplessness, also proposed that one can learn to ____.

a. ​inhibit the fight-or-flight response
b. ​apply problem-focused coping
c. ​think positively about the future
d. ​engage in tragic optimism

Answer 1

The answer is letter C which is to think positively about the future. The learned helplessness theory is the outlook that scientific hopelessness and linked mental ailments may consequence from such existent or seeming nonappearance of resistor over the outcome of a condition. The learned helplessness happens when people or animals feel helpless to avoid negative situations and he first perceived learned helplessness when he was doing experiments on dogs. He perceived that the dogs did not try to outflow the shocks if they had been habituated to believe that they could not escape