Seligman’s Theory of Learned Helplessness Clarisa Kashima Laksmi B1101539 Department of Psychology PSY 111 Dr Goh Chee Leong Edward Ong Learned helplessness is the tendency to fail to act to escape from a situation because of a history of repeated failures in the past (Ciccarelli & White‚ 2009). To describe learned helplessness in person is that recognizing that repeated failures will arouse the idea of a difficult task and impossible to solve. They sometimes blame the outside factors
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One of the lessons Scout learns is to look at things from other people’s perspectives. He teaches them so many lessons here is an example how he helped Scout. "’First of all‚’ he said‚ ’If you can learn a simple trick‚ Scout‚ you’ll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view-’ ’Sir?’ ’-until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.’"(p30) Scout learned an extremely good lesson from what Atticus said.
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revisiting the article "Some Lessons from the Assembly Line‚" I will do a thorough read through of the article and revise my notes. I am doing this because I see now that the author’s goal has changed. It has expanded and became broader the author is trying to give the readers insight into the lessons he learned while working his summers away on the factory floor. Adjacent to that goal the author wanted to show the readers the different experiences in which he learned the lessons that made him appreciate
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theme was deepened by the poet’s treatment?” Stealing is one of the many Carol Ann Duffy poems in which the themes of isolation and loneliness are explored. The poem is about a person who has nothing to live for‚ because of this they have fallen into a life of stealing items that are worthless and have no sentimental meaning to them‚ the thief steals simply because they and get a thrill out of doing so (this particular poem is about the stealing of a snowman). The character finds it amusing to
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and spending time with friends‚ this is not the case for Andrew Braaksma. He spends his summer breaks on an assembly line at a factory. Braaksma has been working in the factory since he got out of high school and he has learned some valuable lessons about life. In “Some Lessons from the Assembly Line” Braaksma comes to the realization that his choice to continue education and go onto college allows him better opportunity and experience to thrive beyond the low paying job of a factory worker with a
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world around her. The act of stealing books is also significant as this can represent her taking knowledge back from her oppressors who wish to destroy it. The act of stealing is never in the novel portrayed as a crime of any sort‚ rather the act of theft flourishes into an act of liberation for Liesel. Liesel’s act of stealing doesn’t begin as completely deliberate‚ initially she just steals what she can find. The first theft that Lisel commits in the novel is stealing a book that a gravedigger dops
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place and stole the keys to a gt 500 we got the car and we drove out the car place without a license we drove out with a stolen car in an illegal way because neither one of us are permitted to drive. Stealing is great because you get things you want in a short amount of time that may benefit you. Stealing is the best way to get what you want because it allows you to steal big flat screen tv in under 15 minutes then spending like 7 or 8 hours at a job working at a job trying to buy one. If you steal
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I would feel justified for stealing for my dire child. Stealing is against my moral beliefs‚ but under the circumstances I would be left with no other option but to steal. I would put my child before myself‚ and I would do anything for my child. By this being said‚ I would put my own reputation and my freedom at risk to help the well being of my child. I would not be able to live with myself if I didn’t do anything to help my child. Since my child is very ill I would do anything for them just to
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Stealing Stealing by Carol Ann Duffy was written in the 1980’s after Duffy had seen her neighbours snowman stolen from their front garden. Getting inspired by this‚ she had written this poem reflecting on the problems that occured in that moment‚ hence it was the time in Britain where unemployment was high due to Margaret Thatcher’s (the Prime Minister during the 1980’s) government policies. The poem starts with a rhetorical question‚ "The most unusual thing I ever stole?" This question seems
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Firmin‚ M.‚ Hwang‚ C.‚ Copella‚ M.‚ & Clark‚ S. (2004). Learned Helplessness: The Effect of Failure on Test-Taking. Education‚ 124(4)‚ 688 – 693. Purpose Firmin‚ Hwang‚ Copella and Clark’s research study focuses on testing the strength of the student against his or her “learned helplessness.” This phenomenon includes the following: Contingency‚ which addresses the uncontrollability or stability of the situation‚ and Cognition refers to the various attributes that individuals display in
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