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The dogs that either had been able to stop the shock or had not been shocked at all in the earlier part of the experiment quickly learned to step over the divider to the side without shocks. But the dogs that had been powerless in the last part of the experiment did not. These dogs didn’t adapt or adjust. They did nothing to try to avoid getting sh

The answer was positive, but highly age-dependent: only the children who were placed in a home before twenty months of age ended up much better off than those who had remained in the orphanage.

“Wrong, the rat will become depressed and engage in extreme inaction otherwise known as learned helplessness. Alyona and Louie will I’m sure attest that we can already see this happening with our rat friend here. A similar experiment was done with dogs and it worked.”

Henry: “My parents abandoned me so I decided that I don’t deserve love. If you love me, I am afraid you will leave me, so either I will force you to leave me, or I will

By allowing a patient to teach him, Dr. Whitehorn related to the person, rather than to the pathology, of that patient. His strategy invariably enhanced both the patient's self-regard and his or her willingness to be self-revealing.

However, when I taught them to ignore the barking but reward the quiet with attention and play time, they saw how effective this technique was.

Rogers stated his central hypothesis in one sentence: “If I can provide a certain type of relationship, the other will discover within himself the capacity to use that relationship for growth, and change and personal development will occur.”

We can't help but be affected by adult models during childhood, and there are few models as important as our parents.

For another thing, a dog that commits to a default behavior feels comfortable and confident.