Recent learned helplessness/irrelevance research in Japan: Conceptual framework and some experiments on learned irrelevance

Integrative Physiological and Behavioral Science

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 9-21

  Imada, Hiroshi ^a   Kitaguchi, Katsuya ^b  

^a KWANSEI GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MUKOGAWA WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; CONDITIONING; JAPAN; LEARNED HELPLESSNESS; METHODOLOGY; RAT; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); HELPLESSNESS, LEARNED; JAPAN; RATS; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 0036368443     PISSN: 1053881X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02688802     Document Type: Article

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