Learned helplessness

The statement- chronic pain should be seen solely a medical problem utilising only biomedical interventions is incorrect. Literature suggests that treating the condition with the biomedical approach alone will fail to address underlying psychological mechanisms fueling pain symptoms, resulting in potential failure to overcome it completely. In prolonged pain situations, Kerns, Thorn & Dixon (2006) acknowledge that there’s a high probability that sufferers will become susceptible to a…

can be intrinsic, extrinsic or amotivational. Amotivation resulted in poor performance and individuals had the least amount of self-determination. Amotivated individuals felt little incentive to perform and characteristics resembled a state of helplessness according to research conducted by Kowal & Fortier (1999). Intrinsic motivation has been shown to have the highest state of self-determination (Ang, 2001; Cerasoli & Ford, 2014; Gillet, Berjot & Gobance, 2009; Spence, & Oades, 2011).…

Posttraumatic stress disorder, otherwise known as PTSD, is a psychological disorder that develops through exposure to a traumatic event, a severely oppressive situation, cruel abuse, or a natural or an unnatural disaster. Symptoms include anxiety, flashbacks, sleep disturbances, nightmares, anger and irritability. Accompanying, are increased heart rate and blood pressure, as well as heightened arousal. Nearly half of all patients diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder also suffer from…

people grew up with no hope of change. “...Communism instilled in us was precisely this immobility, this absence of a future, the absence of a dream... we learned to think: this will go on forever...we can’t change it... we were brought up with the idea that it is impossible to modify the system...” (Drakulic 7). It just shows the helplessness of a better life even to the point where people don't even try to change the system they were brought up under. This is what it looks like when there are…

• The U.S. population minorities expected to increase in the next forty years, due to immigration and birth rates. • Due to the drastic change in minorities in the U.S., cultural competence, having sensitivity and skills to effectively work in a multicultural setting, is highly valued. • Because cultural competence is an ongoing practice, self-honesty and commitment are two qualities that will help individuals succeed in working with the diverse population. • Awareness and acceptance,…

Are people born with the character trait of compassion, or do they have certain experiences in order to learn compassion? There are hundreds of homeless people living on the streets who need help from people that are fortunate enough to have better circumstances. Barbara Lazear Ascher writes “On Compassion” to explain to people that they need to go out into the world and connect with other people who are less fortunate than themselves so that they can learn and develop compassion. By using…

father would come back for us quickly. I recognize this moment as the epiphany of the struggle of many new immigrants, just the first of many obstacles to be faced living a life diaspora, wherein the notion of home would be unclear. The feeling of helplessness and confusion that one is overcome with in an unfamiliar country would be the defining feature of my parents’ struggle to adapt and give us a better life filled with opportunities, one they did not have. This struggle has been both a…

This most clearly serves to challenge Freud's concept of:| A)|free association.| B)|learned helplessness.| C)|motivational conflict.| D)|repression.| E)|fixation.| 46.|Tests that present ambiguous stimuli designed to uncover hidden personality dynamics are called ________ tests.| A)|empirical| B)|projective| C)|multiphasic personality|…

process. The guideline supports my policy because there are so many factors that come into play when you discuss plagiarism. Sometimes, violations are not black and white. Some students do not know how to properly cite sources, because they never learned, and continue to do so for fear of getting accused of wrongdoing, while others are so confident, they plagiarize intentionally. When dealing with such a serious and widespread issue, there needs to be a careful process to deal with the…

Solutions are created by action and action is learned behavior. In her work “Despair Not” Sandra Steingraber list problems surrounding childhood diseases. One of the views she presses upon is the notion that parents recognize disconnects between these labeled problems and the action along with the awareness that is needed to correct. She goes on to describe a learned helplessness from the knowledge of the problem to the action needed to rectify. Understanding…