Conceptual Complexity and Susceptibility to Learned Helplessness.

Harris, Roma M.; Highlen, Pamela S.

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Publication Date: 1982

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Conceptual Complexity and Susceptibility to Learned Helplessness.

Harris, Roma M.; Highlen, Pamela S.

Social Behavior and Personality, v10 n2 p183-88 1982

Examined the effects of escapable versus inescapable aversive stimuli (noise) on performance in relation to the conceptual complexity level of college students (N=60). Overall, results suggested that conceptual complexity level mediated the experience of learned helplessness. Conceptually complex students were less negatively affected than conceptually simple students. (WAS)

Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Concept Formation, Foreign Countries, Helplessness, Higher Education, Noise (Sound), Performance Factors, Stress Variables

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Canada

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