title: [The effect of control and predictability in learned helplessness].
abstract: The present 2 x 2 study deals with the influence of controllability and predictability of an aversive noise stimulus on a subsequent learning task. Eighty-four subjects participated in two experiments. In correspondence with the concept of learned helplessness, controllability was shown to be the dominant factor in the first experiment. In the second experiment, a modified test task was used in which both factors were shown to act in specific ways: The main influence of controllability is upon response measures (latency, omission), whereas unpredictability retardates learning of new predictive connections. The results are discussed in terms of contingency learning.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Rübeling
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Meckfessel
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001143:Arousal; D005260:Female; D006380:Helplessness, Learned; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D008297:Male; D012718:Set, Psychology
vernacular_title: Zur Wirksamkeit von Kontrolle und Vorhersage bei erlernter Hilflosigkeit.