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Peer reviewedZuroff, David C. – Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1980
Rotter's social learning theory is applied to the learned helplessness paradigm, and is used to analyze (1) expectancy change processes occurring during helplessness training and (2) the generalization of those changes to other situations. Literature on individual and situational differences is also reviewed. (Author/SS)
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Expectation, Generalization, Helplessness
