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How Learned Helplessness Develops
- Learned helplessness occurs when repeated aversive events teach someone that nothing they do changes outcomes.
- Learned hopelessness follows when they stop trying even after the environment changes and escape becomes possible.
The Classroom Anagram Example
- The classroom anagram experiment split students into two hidden groups with easy and impossible words to create learned helplessness in one group.
- The group given solvable items stayed engaged and solved a later hard anagram more often than the discouraged group.
Sexual Triggers Become Conditioned Bells
- Sexual triggers can become conditioned warning bells that produce fight/flight/freeze responses before intimacy.
- Subconscious statistical learning pairs cues (touch, date bids) with feared outcomes, causing aversion even when conscious mind disagrees.