Learned helplessness
By: consultant, writer, and host, Betsy Sparrow ; produced by Robert Broadhurst for Insight Media
Contributors: Moran, Marty, 1961-; Insight Media (Firm)
Series: Insight Media psychology series
Publisher: Insight Media
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 16
Subjects: Helplessness (Psychology)
Description: This program defines the psychological concept of learned helplessness. It reviews Martin E. P. Seligman's research with dogs; considers criticisms of the theory; explores its implications as a model for depression and for human behavior; looks at behavior in such environments as concentration camps, schools, and prisons; and examines the idea of learned optimism as proposed by Seligman.
Notes: Disc is a recorded DVD and may not play on all DVD players or drives.

Narrator, Marty Moran.

DVD-R.

Closed-captioned.
Table of contents: title: Historical background; title: Classic psychological experiments; title: Alternative interpretation.