Question

In a two-phase study, participants were randomly assigned to either group A or group B. All participants were subjected to a series of irritating air puffs directed at the face. In the first phase of the study, participants in group A pressed a button that stopped the air puffs. Participants in group B pressed a button that had no effect on the air puffs. In the second phase of the study, both groups had buttons that, if pressed, would stop the air puffs. The study most directly explores the concept of ______________.

Answer 1

Answer:

Learned helplessness

Explanation:

Martin Seligman was known to have created the theory of Learned Helplessness, in 1967.

Learned Helplessness is simply that emotion or feelings that is learned or can also be belief by an individual that they are helpless and inability to have any effect on events in their lives, so they loose hope and give up trying.

This only is discovered if and when individuals have faith or believe that their own behavior has no influence on consequent happenings.

Learn helplessness is not only a learning barrier, it also comes from past experience and it is also an internal excuse.