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Caiter2013

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In the original learned helplessness model, people were said to experience learned helplessness when they
 
  A. encountered obstacles they could not overcome.
  B. encountered aversive events.
  C. generalized their inability to control one aversive event to a situation they might be able to control.
  D. gave up trying after they realized they could not do anything about an aversive situation.

Question 2

The original learned helplessness experiments placed dogs in a harness where they were exposed to electric shocks. Later, the dogs were placed in a shuttle-box where they experienced more shocks. The dogs that exhibited learned helplessness
 
  A. quickly learned to escape the shocks in a shuttle box.
  B. failed to escape the shocks in the shuttle box.
  C. escaped the shocks in the shuttle box, but only after several trials.
  D. escaped the shuttle-box shocks, but then showed signs of helplessness.



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Answer to Question 1

C

Answer to Question 2

B



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