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The concept of learned helplessness was formulated to explain, a, the inability of dogs to escape, to attempt to escape avoidable shocks after receiving inescapable ones, the failure of the dogs to learn from mistakes, the ability of dogs to learn to help others, or the inability of dogs to learn to help others.
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Okay, so the answer here is actually a.
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And let's look at this experiment that selman did.
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So he had two groups of dogs.
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And half of those dogs were put in a box and they were shocked, and there was nothing they could do about it.
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So the floor would have a current one through it.
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So they would have inescapable shocks.
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Route b would have the same setup, except there would be a lever.
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And if they push the lever, the shock stops.
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Or in the original experiment, they would be a boundary that they could jump over, and if they jumped over it, they would escape.
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So they could escape the shocks.
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And group b, you may be able to predict what happens...