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

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


Answer: d

Psychology

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