Helplessness, Learned
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

When nonsense sounds happy or helpless: The Implicit Positive and Negative Affect Test (IPANAT).

30 Aug 2009 This article introduces an instrument for the indirect assessment of positive and negative affect, the Implicit Positive and Negative Affect Test (IPANAT). This test draws on participant ratings of the extent to which artificial words subjectively ... Read more...

Anxious solitude and peer exclusion predict social helplessness, upset affect, and vagal regulation in response to behavioral rejection by a friend.

29 Jun 2009 It was hypothesized that combined individual child vulnerability (anxious solitude) and interpersonal stress (peer exclusion) would predict the strongest responses to experimentally manipulated behavioral peer rejection. Results indicated that in a ... Read more...

The effects of exposure to community violence on aspects of adolescent identity development.

29 Apr 2009 PROBLEM: A gap exists in our understanding of the impact of exposure to community violence on identity development. The purpose of this study was to explore how exposure to community violence affects adolescents' identity development. Data were ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Helplessness, Learned'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• When nonsense sounds happy or helpless: The Implicit Positive and Negative Affect Test (IPANAT). 30 Aug 2009
• Anxious solitude and peer exclusion predict social helplessness, upset affect, and vagal regulation in response to behavioral rejection by a friend. 29 Jun 2009
• The effects of exposure to community violence on aspects of adolescent identity development. 29 Apr 2009
• Treatment with escitalopram but not desipramine decreases escape latency times in a learned helplessness model using juvenile rats. 20 Apr 2009
• [The hypoxic preconditioning effect upon expression of the NGFI-A transcription factor in the rat brain following an unavoidable stess in the "learned helpnessness" model] 30 Mar 2009
• Maternal postpartum learned helplessness (LH) affects maternal care by dams and responses to the LH test in adolescent offspring. 29 Mar 2009
• [Anxiety and depression in medicine: models and measurement] 23 Mar 2009
• Living with an unfixable heart: a qualitative study exploring the experience of living with advanced heart failure. 15 Mar 2009
• Reduced expression of GABA transporter GAT3 in helpless rats, an animal model of depression. 13 Mar 2009
• Early stage assessment and course of acute stress disorder after mild traumatic brain injury. 27 Feb 2009
• Strain, sex, and open-field behavior: factors underlying the genetic susceptibility to helplessness. 23 Feb 2009
• The role of self-blame and responsibility in adjustment to inflammatory bowel disease. 30 Jan 2009
• Opinion: learned helplessness in the elderly: stop fostering frailty. 30 Jan 2009
• Childhood and the loss of contact with reality: the prospects for democracy. 30 Dec 2008
• The internal consistency and concurrent validity of the Hopelessness, Helplessness, and Haplessness Scale in a Turkish clinical sample. 29 Nov 2008
• Learned social hopelessness: the role of explanatory style in predicting social support during adolescence. 29 Nov 2008
• [Challenging behavior of patients with dementia: experiences and strategies of nurses] 29 Nov 2008
• Chaotic living conditions and sleep problems associated with children's responses to academic challenge. 29 Nov 2008
• Relationship between post-traumatic stress disorder-like behavior and reduction of hippocampal 5-bromo-2'-deoxyuridine-positive cells after inescapable shock in rats. 29 Nov 2008
• The effects of the selective 5-HT(2C) receptor antagonist SB 242084 on learned helplessness in male Fischer 344 rats. 25 Nov 2008

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Technical information about 'Helplessness, Learned'

Definition: Learned expectation that one's responses are independent of reward and, hence, do not predict or control the occurrence of rewards. Learned helplessness derives from a history, experimentally induced or naturally occurring, of having received punishment/aversive stimulation regardless of responses made. Such circumstances result in an impaired ability to learn. Used for human or animal populations. (APA, Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms, 1994)

Descriptor UI: D006380

Alternative terms: Helplessness, Learned; Learned Helplessness;

Tree Number: F01.393.398; F02.463.425.420;

History Note: 83

Technical Notes: no qualif