College students faced with unsolvable problems eventually give up and make only halfhearted attempts to solve new problems, even when the new problems can be solved easily. This behavior is probably due to ________.

a. learned helplessness
b. contingency blocking
c. latent learning
d. response generalization


Ans: a. learned helplessness

Psychology

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