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.
Seligman and colleagues drew their reformulated model not from the learned helplessness paradigm, but rather from that body of literature known as attribution theory (e.g., Jones et al., 1972). Attribution theory is concerned with the way people attribute causality to events.aier and Seligman (1976) listed alternative explanations of the helplessness effect in animals. For example, there was the theory that inescapable shock is an extreme stressor that depletes a neurochemical needed by the animals for movement.