Kinesiology 1080A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Home Advantage, Learned Helplessness, Achievement Orientation
18 Dec 2017
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Harry"s first piece of research was on learned helplessness. In 1965, a scientist named martin seligman started shocking dogs. He was trying to expand on the research of pavlov the guy who could make dogs salivate when they heard a bell ring. Seligman wanted to head in the other direction, and when he rang his bell instead of providing food he zapped them with electricity. To keep them still, he restrained them in a harness during the experiment. After they were conditioned, he put these dogs in a big box with a little fence dividing it into two halves. They figured if they rang the bell, the dog would hop over the fence to escape, but it didn"t. They decided to try shocking them after the bell. The dog still just sat there and took it. When they put a dog in the box which had never been shocked before and tried to zap it it jumped the fence.
