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• Some people have different experiences on learned helplessness. They are more likely to experience learned helplessness in the face of uncontrollable events, often due to biological and psychological factors. Children raised by helpless parents, for example, are also more likely to experience learned helplessness. 

•Learned helplessness can be overcome in a variety of ways. If you feel that learned helplessness is having a negative effect on your life and health, consider talking to your doctor about steps you can take to address this type of thinking. Likewise, Seligman himself also mentioned one thing that could help to avoid learned helplessness which is, learned optimism. 

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• Not without criticism, learned helplessness has been associated with and utilized as an explanation for depression and post-traumatic stress disorder in humans. Even when escape is possible, a person may quit trying to avoid unpleasant stimuli if they realize that their behavior has no impact on their unpleasant surroundings.  

As Seligman is the father of positive psychology, he identifies and nurtures positive emotions and uses them to withstand the negative, concluding that learned helplessness isn't all about helplessness—it is about empowerment and control. 

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For an instance, Seligman and Maier are testing the dogs’ responses to electric shocks. The dogs were first divided into groups, the one that would receive the electric shocks and the other group contrarily. They were put in a box that has a low barrier to separate them. When the electrified floor was turned on, the dogs that were placed in the box with electric shock didn’t even try to jump over the low barrier to escape. However, the dogs which were placed with no electric shocks were able to jump the barrier. 

Furthermore, Seligman and Maier didn’t stop there. They collected another batch of dogs and grouped them into three. When the first experimental manipulation has done, all dogs were placed in the box with two chambers. Dogs that came from group 1 and group 2 easily figured out that they just need to jump over the barrier in order to escape the shocks. On the contrary, group 3 didn’t even try to escape the shocks. Therefore, the dogs realized that they can’t do anything to escape being shocked. After that, when Seligman and Maier arrived at conclusion. Later on, they conducted other experiments involving other animals such as rats.

There was once a study of learned helplessness that was conducted to humans in 1974. In the study, just like the rats and the dogs, humans were divided into three groups. One group was assigned to a loud music and unwavering noise but will be able to eliminate the noise through pressing a button four times. The second group was assigned to the same noise but the button would not function. And the last would be assigned to no noise at all. 

Seligman and his colleagues introduced that subjecting participants to a situation that they held no control of would result to three deficiency area; motivational, cognitive, and emotional. 

The cognitive refers to the knowledge of the participant that he or she has no control over things the motivational refers to the participant's lack of response of escaping from a certain situation. The emotional area refers to the participant's depressive state of mind when faced to a situation he or she lacks control of. 

No one is born believing that they have no control over what happens to them and that it is useless even to try gaining control. It is a learned behavior, conditioned through experiences in which the subject either truly has no control over his circumstances or simply perceives that he has no control.