Which of the following phrases is most likely to be made by a person demonstrating learned helplessness?
a. "The Lord willing and the creek don't rise, we'll have crops this year!"
b. "If they can't do anything about this, then neither can I!"
c. "I just hate going back to the same place and meeting the same people all over again!"
d. "A wise person does not go back to a wishing well that has no luck!"
ANS: B
FEEDBACK: Learned helplessness was found to occur after human subjects simply observed helpless models, especially when the subjects recognized similarities between themselves and the models (Chamber & Hammonds, 2014). The experimenters in these and many other studies suggested that the subjects were saying, in effect, "If the models can't do anything about this, then neither can I."
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