Describe Martin Seligman's Experiment with Dogs That Demonstrated Learned Helplessness

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Essay

Describe Martin Seligman's experiment with dogs that demonstrated learned helplessness.What was Seligman's reaction on seeing the findings?

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Definitions:

Adaptive Changes

Adjustments or modifications in structure or function that organisms make in response to environmental changes or challenges.

Populations

Groups of individuals belonging to the same species that live in the same geographic area and can potentially interbreed.

Gradualism

A theory in evolutionary biology that posits species evolve through small, incremental changes over long periods.

Punctuated Equilibrium

Punctuated Equilibrium is an evolutionary theory proposing that species evolve rapidly during short periods of time, followed by long periods of stasis (little or no evolutionary changes).