Question

College students faced with unsolvable problems eventually give up and make only half hearted attempts to solve new problems, even when the new problems can be solved easily. This behavior is probably due to:________.a. learned helplessness.

b. contingency blocking.
c. latent learning.
d. response generalization.

Answer 1

a. learned helplessness.

Step-by-step explanation:

Learned helplessness: In psychology, the term learned helplessness was first noticed by a psychologist named Martin Seligman while experimenting with dogs.

Learned helplessness is defined as a mental state that leads an organism to tolerate aversive stimuli, unpleasant, or painful stimuli and the organism becomes unable to avoid the encounters related to those stimuli even if the organism can escape because they have learned that it is inescapable.

In the question above, College students are facing learned helplessness.