AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -What is learned helplessness? 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.

Detailed explanation-2: -Learned helplessness refers to the motivational, cognitive, and emotional deficits that may follow from an organism’s exposure to uncontrollable stressors.

Detailed explanation-3: -Operant conditioning is conditioning that has either a punishment or a reward for behavior. Learned helplessness does employ aspects of operant conditioning.

Detailed explanation-4: -reinforcer: A stimulus or event that increases the probability that the response it follows will be repeated. superstitious behavior: In Skinner’s view, behavior acquired through coincidental association of a response and a reinforcement.

Detailed explanation-5: -The main difference between classical and operant conditioning is that classical conditioning associates involuntary behavior with a stimulus while operant conditioning associates voluntary action with a consequence. Classical and operant conditioning are two central concepts in behavioral psychology.