Learned helplessness is essentially a procedure in which subjects experience
A) intense punishment unless they remain still or passive.
B) aversive events that cannot be prevented or controlled.
C) unsignaled avoidance using a contraprepared behavior.
D) avoidance tasks in which the warning stimuli change over time.

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Learned helplessness occurs when individuals or animals learn that they have no control over unpleasant or harmful conditions, leading to passive behavior in situations where they actually can make a difference. This concept was developed through experiments showing that subjects exposed to inescapable aversive events eventually stop trying to avoid or escape them, even when it becomes possible to do so.

Learned Helplessness Is Essentially a Procedure in Which Subjects Experience