learned helplessness
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learned helplessness
learned helplessness n. An apathetic condition in an animal or a human being resulting from exposure to insoluble problems or inescapable physical or emotional stress, believed by some psychologists to underlie depression . The term was introduced in 1968 by the US psychologist Martin E. P. ...
January 1, 2001; A Dictionary of Psychology
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