24/09/2020
Learned helplessness. You might’ve heard the term before. Perhaps by a friend or a trainer, but what does it actually mean? This author goes into detail of where the term was originally used in relation to animal behavior and why it’s not necessarily what you may think it is.
Learned helplessness is a term often associated with balanced training methods by those who are against the use of aversive tools in dog training. -Learned helplessness is defined as “behavior exhi…