I read that per a more recent study “learned helplessness” in the exact sense does not exist because helplessness is the default for all learning beings that haven’t learned yet.
Instead a better name would be “unlearned competence” , because just like practicing for getting more competent it is possible to unintentionally learn to become less competent, e.g. by consistent frustration from tasks above reasonable skill level.
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u/Candid-Sky-3709 21h ago
I read that per a more recent study “learned helplessness” in the exact sense does not exist because helplessness is the default for all learning beings that haven’t learned yet.
Instead a better name would be “unlearned competence” , because just like practicing for getting more competent it is possible to unintentionally learn to become less competent, e.g. by consistent frustration from tasks above reasonable skill level.