College students faced with unsolvable problems eventually give up and make only half hearted attempts to solve new problems, even when the new problems can be solved easily. this behavior is probably due to: . learned .
b. contingency blocking.
c. latent learning.
d. response generalization.

a. learned helplessness.                        

Explanation:

Learned helplessness: In psychology, the term learned helplessness was first noticed by a psychologist named Martin Seligman while experimenting with dogs.

Learned helplessness is defined as a mental state that leads an organism to tolerate aversive stimuli, unpleasant, or painful stimuli and the organism becomes unable to avoid the encounters related to those stimuli even if the organism can escape because they have learned that it is inescapable.

In the question above, College students are facing learned helplessness.

sectionalism continues to divide the nation as the question of slavery being allowed in the mexican cession became a problem. -the results of the mexican war spark secession in the south because the north did not want to allow slavery in the territories won.

i do believe that the correct answer is   (technical reasoning); luck

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