Situation similarity and the generalization of learned helplessness |
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Authors: | Marika Tiggemann A. H. Winefield |
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Affiliation: | a Department of Psychology, University of Adelaide, |
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Abstract: | An experiment is reported which investigated the effects of situation similarity on learned helplessness. After initial pretreatment strong helplessness effects were found on a similar, but not on a dissimilar, test task. It was concluded that situation similarity is an important determinant of the generalization of the learned helplessness phenomenon. |
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