Essay On Learned Helplessness
People are excellent learners. Learning ways of behaving and reacting that cognitively, we do not even know we know or have learned because it is reactionary. It happens without us making the conscious cognitive decision of acting in a certain way. Learned helplessness is one of the ways we react in situations or against situations because we have learned that we are not that actions on our part are ineffective and so we learn to be helpless. This article review was on Perceptions of learned helplessness among emerging adults aging out of foster care by Gomez, R., Ryan, T., Norton, C., Jones, C., & Galán-Cisneros, P. (2015).
While there does not be a blatant statement of the researcher’s hypothesis in this article, it seems the writers …show more content…
They also showed that greater percentages were in a transitional living program 26.2% to 19.4% but there were lower percentages living in shelters or others less desirable situations 24.6% to 33% Results also showed that those who had aged out of foster care seemed to be pursue their education to a greater degree. Which is interesting results
Concerning learned helplessness, 59% those who aged out of foster care made statements that indicated a perception of learned helplessness. The statements indicated “lack of efficacy and motivation to respond to or impact future events” (Gomez et al., 2015, p. 511).
There are a few confounding variable. There is certainly the genetics debate that could be confounding as well as epigenetics factors. There could also be variables as well as critical periods within the womb and nurturing outside of it where there were factors specific to these children such as uncaring parents or abuse parents. Also since they were aware of the intent of the study and interview there answers could have been biased in a way that would support the researches and peers.
Other factors should be considered when making conclusions about the results are the inclusion of Participatory Action Research, time in foster care, early childhood events, chronic instability
While there does not be a blatant statement of the researcher’s hypothesis in this article, it seems the writers …show more content…
They also showed that greater percentages were in a transitional living program 26.2% to 19.4% but there were lower percentages living in shelters or others less desirable situations 24.6% to 33% Results also showed that those who had aged out of foster care seemed to be pursue their education to a greater degree. Which is interesting results
Concerning learned helplessness, 59% those who aged out of foster care made statements that indicated a perception of learned helplessness. The statements indicated “lack of efficacy and motivation to respond to or impact future events” (Gomez et al., 2015, p. 511).
There are a few confounding variable. There is certainly the genetics debate that could be confounding as well as epigenetics factors. There could also be variables as well as critical periods within the womb and nurturing outside of it where there were factors specific to these children such as uncaring parents or abuse parents. Also since they were aware of the intent of the study and interview there answers could have been biased in a way that would support the researches and peers.
Other factors should be considered when making conclusions about the results are the inclusion of Participatory Action Research, time in foster care, early childhood events, chronic instability