BIOLOGICAL BASES OF BEHAVIOR
BIOLOGY OF CONSCIOUSNESS
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learned helplessness.
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observational learning.
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learned laziness.
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behavior modification.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Martin Seligman, an American psychologist, developed his Learned Helplessness Theory with a classical conditioning experiment using dogs. The conditioned dogs learned to accept their fate and do not do anything to try and change the situation, even when a solution was easily accessible.
Detailed explanation-2: -Example: A child teased his sister, making her cry so loud. The mother spanked him on his buttocks because of this. The child never teased his sister again. Negative Punishment, on the other hand, is the removal of something which is favorable, in order to decrease the likelihood of the behavior to reoccur.
Detailed explanation-3: -Learned helplessness is a state that occurs after a person has experienced a stressful situation repeatedly. They come to believe that they are unable to control or change the situation, so they do not try-even when opportunities for change become available.