<p>i don’t understand this at all…if someone could explain it i’d be grateful</p>
<p>seligman came up with this- it’s like you feel that you have no control over waht’s going around you. if you try again and again to do something to gain a reward and you don’t get it, you will stop doing it. it’s the behaviorist/cognitive reason for depression.</p>
<p>remember that learned helplessness involves the expectation of not of having control.</p>