learned helplessness

基本解释

"Sports Learned Helplessness"is acquired postnatally and engendered during the practice of sports.
体育习得性无助感是后天获得的，是在体育活动的实践中产生。
Yet as the economic outlook has suddenly darkened in recent weeks I detect an unfamiliar mood among policy makers: policy fatigue, a sort of learned helplessness.
然而,随着最近几周经济前景突然变坏，我察觉到政策制定者中出现了一种不太熟悉的情绪：施政乏力，一种心有余而力不足的感觉。
Learned helplessness is a set of motivational, cognitive, emotional and behavioral deficits, which comes from some learning and may affect the subsequent learning.
习得无助指个体经历了某种学习后，引起动机、认知、情绪和行为上的消极表现，影响后来的学习。

There are all too many Americans that have taken the bait offered by our myriad of welfare programs, and have self-selected into learned helplessness and lifetime dependency.
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the act of giving up trying as a result of consistent failure to be rewarded in life, thought to be a cause of depression