Learned helplessness

This information presented in Wealth, Income and Power by G. William Domhoff was striking and offensive, but it was not surprising. It was very much like reading a study or watching a report about the harmful effects of sugar or caffeine or high fat diets. It is something we hear all the time, but think it may be to hard to do something about it. The reason it is not surprising is probably due to the fact that the Occupy movement and the attention paid to the 1% during that Presidential…

He displays, defensive pessimism, self-handicapping and learned helplessness. Defensive pessimism is a strategy used where one creates low expectations for an upcoming event. Self-handicapping is when someone deliberately does something to increase the chances they will fail. Learned helplessness occurs when one experiences repeated emotional or physical pain and cannot escape. We see all three being used by our subject in…

A friend of mine is a single mother of two young children who has struggled financially for several years after her boyfriend and she broke up. The father of her children is not involved anymore by choice and does not support any of them nor help with any kind of child support. She works full time and does her best to support her children. Even though she does not enjoy her job and the pay isn’t the best she has not found something else that works well with her schedule. She was struggling with…

electric shock when the light appeared for 10 seconds each time. Seligman experimented with the dogs to see if the dogs could escape from the shock completely and he found that the dogs escaped by jumping over the barriers. Seligman found that the dogs learned that the light is the sign of an electric shock and this caused the dogs to escape from the shock. Seligman carried out another experiment…

the educational system would be better if we focused on improving the curriculum instead. On one side of the issue is expert and head of the Department of Education Reform Jay Greene. In the article titled “The Myth of Helplessness” Greene begins to talk about the myth of helplessness and how it is connected to education and education reform. Another expert Diane Ravitch, who is a former United State Assistant Secretary of Education, takes on the latter side of the issue in her…

Our group, upon reading "The Little Engine that Couldn 't" and collaboration with each other, have decided to explore the student 's lack of performance through Attribution Theory. This theory helps explain why, though given examples and a directive, the students in the room still seem unmotivated to do their work. The students beliefs that they aren 't capable either because of cultural aspects, locus of control, control of their environment, lack of stability in their abilities, or their lack…

small cage and administered a painful shock after they flashed warning lights. The dog had no chance of escaping the pain and learned there was nothing it could do to stop it. They took the same dog and placed it into another cage where they flashed warning lights expecting the dog to brace for pain; the exact opposite happened. The dog didn’t move as it had previously learned there was nothing it could do to avoid the shock (O’Boyle, 298). The researchers most likely induced depression within…

self-handicapping that serve to perpetuate failure. ♣ Learned helplessness (LH) Learned helplessness refers to “a personal perception that s/he has no control over the situation.” Literature describes learned helpless as a situation that students accept failure, giving up to the point of not even trying to avoid failure (Covington, 1992; Martin & Marsh, 2003). It is thus argued that fear of failure is closely linked to learned helplessness. Content…

forgetting. I first did a literature review on the topic of forgetting and the information I learned from this literature review…

likelihood of them succeeding is higher. Carol Dweck stated in her research “Through a series of exercises, the experimenters trained half the students to chalk up their errors to insufficient effort, and encouraged them to keep going. Those children learned to persist in the face of failure—and to succeed” (Krakovsky 1). Her experiment has the elements that make up the aspects of…