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If you repeatedly fail in your attempts to control your environment, you are likely to make no further attempts to escape or make your environment better. This is called _____.

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Answer: Learned Helplessness

Explanation: Learned Helplessness can be simply defined as the state of mind of individual that quits trying to escape from a negative stimuli. It's a situation where individuals have already made up their minds to expect pain and discomfort (negative stimuli) without away of escape and with time the individuals stops trying to escape the discomfort even if there is a way to escape it. They have this feeling of helplessness and believes that nothing positive will ever come out of thm

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