In August, the warmest month, the average day time temperature rises to 94.7Â°F. The driest month in San Antonio is January with 1.66 inches of precipitation, and with 4.72 inches May is the wettest month.
Learned Helplessness. BIBLIOGRAPHY. The term learned helplessness was coined by psychologists Martin Seligman and Steven Maier in 1967 to describe the behavior of dogs who, after experiencing inescapable electric shocks behaved as if they were helpless.As with many terms in psychology, learned helplessness is both descriptive and explanatory.earned Helplessness. BIBLIOGRAPHY. The term learned helplessness was coined by psychologists Martin Seligman and Steven Maier in 1967 to describe the behavior of dogs who, after experiencing inescapable electric shocks behaved as if they were helpless.
In other words, the dog learned to be helpless.. This research formed Seligman's subsequent theory of Learned Helplessness, which was then extended to human behavior as a model for explaining depression. According to Seligman, depressed people have learned to be helpless. In other words, depressed people feel that whatever they do will be futile, and that they have no control over their environments.