Learned helplessness

In the article which is named Obey At Any Cost which is the Milgram study which talks about how when someone is in command, they can make people do anything. In the beginning of the article it talks about how they believe humans have the tendency to obey people in charge, Milgram’s hypothesis is if they put people in situations where there is a student and teacher and the subject is the teacher and the other person who is an actor will be the student. The subject will ask the student questions…

Throughout the span of human existence males and females have had different reproductive strategies that are relative to the reproductive success of each sex. They are learned at a young age, usually in the first few years of life when the mind is most susceptible and malleable to new information. Children learn these strategies through parental influence and through the more modern invention, schools. Schools reinforce evolutionary reproductive strategies through the teacher’s behaviors and…

Growing up, I had the perfect mom who doubled my best friend. She did everything for me, and gave me whatever I want. Due to this, I grew up to be almost selfish in a way, I thought everything would come as easy as my mom made it seem. I planned on never leaving my home town, as I thought my life was already perfect. I was even scared of who I may be if I weren’t dependent on my mom, her catering to me every minute. However, in 2008, my and mother’s life took a detrimental turn. A cold, snowy…

play sports, those involved in Greek life, and those who are involved in clubs etc. I became interested in the topic of Title IX for many reasons. I have been involved in high school and collegiate athletics for a total of nine years now. I first learned about Title IX my freshman year of high school. The topic came up in a conversation about the baseball team versus the softball team. This pointed me towards a topic question of how do gender roles affect athletics? I researched Title IX to…

Define Seligman's learned optimism as a counterpart to learned helplessness. Learned behaviors are behaviors that are not innate or instinctual, they are learned from experience, gained through observation, or taught. Seligman’s theory of learned helpless reasons that a person who feels helpless, hopeless, or like they are constantly failing, begins to expect failure and blame others as a coping mechanism. On the other hand, learned optimism is the ability to observe, criticize…

Philip Zimbardo’s Prison Study Experiment The Stanford Prison Experiment was supposed to be a small two week study to view individual’s responses to being held captive, being dehumanized, and the overall effects of being in a situation portrayed as either a prisoner or guard. The study took place in 1971 and only lasted six days due to the effects it had on its participants. This experiment was highly controversial and inflicted mental pain to its participants. So where did it all go wrong? Why…

Students with learning disabilities become easily frustrated and discouraged. They do not know why they are having the troubles they are so they fall victim of learned helplessness. The students with learning disabilities believe that they are unable to control or improve their learning. This mindset can be very powerful in children. If the students fall victim to this then they altogether quit exerting the effort into…

self, others, and a reigning feeling of helplessness and hopelessness. Furthermore, Persistent negative stereotypes fuel the institutional racism fire, which influences interpersonal relationships in a negative…

clueless as to how I would defend myself. The thought of being in a physical altercation gave me nightmares. I did not know how to fight and was in fear of being attacked, which would lead to more intense bullying. I expressed my feeling of fright and helplessness to my mother, who then signed me up for karate classes. That is how my martial arts journey began. I started my karate training with the intention of learning how to fight and defend…

People can: one, react to a situation, two, develop learned helplessness and give up, three, let opportunities go and not try, and four, understand that work pays off and keep working towards a better self. These four situations, may not happen in chronological order due to how different people react with different…