Learned Helplessness: The Result of the Uncontrollability of Reinforcement or the Result of the Uncontrollability of Aversive Stimuli?

This research demonstrates that experience with uncontrollable reinforcement, here defined as continuous non-contingent positive feedback to solution attempts of insoluble problems, fails to produce the proactive interference phenomenon, learned helplessness, while uncontrollable aversive events, he...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Benson, James S.
Other Authors: Kennelly, Kevin J.
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: North Texas State University 1975
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Online Access:https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc663724/