学がく習しゅう性せい無む力りょく感かん

noun

learned helplessness

Psychology term for a state where repeated failure leads to passive acceptance and lack of effort, even when escape is possible.

• 学がく習しゅう性せい無む力りょく感かんは、うつ病びょうのモデルとして研けん究きゅうされることがある。

  Learned helplessness is sometimes studied as a model for depression.