Learned helplessness

I truly enjoyed the videos assigned for this week, one of my favorite was 51 Pretty Shocking Facts. I think that video does a really good job of summarizing what feminism truly means and how our society has manipulated its meaning into something negative. As discussed in the video Like a Girl, female characteristics have been utilized as a way of an insult or a way to make fun of men as if being feminine was a bad thing. That definitely has a lot to do with the way we as a society enforce gender…

The repeated act of violent towards the victim leads them to feel vulnerable and helpless in abusive relationship as victims deal with many forms of abuse. The victim develops learned helplessness and use various coping method to survive the mistreatment. The term learned helplessness is defined as feelings of helplessness and powerlessness to control, change or leave an abusive environment. Often results in not seeking help out of fear of potential abuse if nothing is done. The abuses…

While volunteering in a dental office i gained tremendous amount of knowledge about how a dental office operates. I learned about procedures involved for every case and the equipment used for each one. It was important for me to observe not only what the dentist was doing, but the reactions of the patient as well. While working some patients were more sensitive to pain and pressure than others and i was told to ensure to minimize discomfort as much as possible. At the same time however it was…

A Helping Hand “ Hola mi nombre es Eric Rodriguez. Gustarian un interprete?” I ask those exact words to any families of that did not speak English in their homes that had a student at Washington Elementary School as if I was a scratched CD. Most of the families I would interpret for were the families that lacked the confidence that their student was behaving well during school. The majority of the time the parents “gut feeling” was the correct. At the same time, several parents knew their child…

experience (Lifschitz, 2004). Women who suffer from BWS “are in a state of ‘learned helplessness’ brought on from repeated abuse” (Lifschitz, 2004, para 2) Lifschitz (2004) also explains how a “women’s experience with attempts to control the violence of their batterers would, over time, produce learned helplessness and diminish the woman 's motivation to respond” (Lifschitz, 2004, para 4). The formation of learned helplessness explains why battered women, like Darla, do not attempt to free…

Vance was able to succeed in life despite all the obstacles he faced. His success could be credited to the support of his grandparents, the prosperity towards his education, and the many incidents he dealt with as a child. Vance was able to learn how to cope with these incidents from the support of his grandmother, and while doing so he was able to become aware of the mindset of his surroundings and defeat the stereotypes that are often portrayed in his community. Bev, Vance’s mother, was often…

Esky. Their past experiences have influenced their current behaviors as the parents have modeled behavior for what success looks like, and have verbally informed the students not to get their hopes up for any other kind of life. This is likely why these students are engaging in their current behavior, which includes not believing that they are capable of being intelligent, not being invested in the classroom, and not achieving consistently higher grades. The tasks that these students have set…

However, I tend to lean towards Rousseau’s organismic approach. Overall, the child is an active being, exploring and changing the world around them. To me this makes evolutionary sense, and is supported by most evolutionary psychologists. I have learned though the years of teaching that the evidence suggests that the human…

becoming.” In the end, the mother seems hopeless because “after all [the mother has said]” her daughter will not grow up like the mother hoped. The fact that the story ends with the mother’s question also highlights the mother’s helplessness that her daughter in fact has not learned…

“Man’s Search for Meaning,” is a book written by Viktor E. Frankl, a psychologist as well as a Holocaust survivor. He overcame the concentration camp and was even strong enough to record his experience for the future generations. It is evident that Dr. Frankl was an intelligent man, but he was also very determined. “Man’s Search for Meaning” revealed plenty about the author but also brought an abundance of knowledge about the psychological makeup of a person. This paper will provide a quick…