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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Every day people are hurt‚ affected‚ and even targets of racism. Why‚ just because someone dislikes the color of their skin. This leads to someone feeling left out‚ scarred‚ or even wanting to commit suicide. Is racism really learned? Racism is defined as a belief or doctrine that inherits differences among various human races or a policy or system government. Although‚ around 1936- along with the word racist- a new definition arises‚ hatred or intolerance of another race or other races. The history
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Memo TO: Professor Megan MacAlystre FROM: Chiderah Onyeukwu DATE: April 24‚ 2015 SUBJECT: Team Project Individual Reflection When this project was first assigned‚ my main goal was to work with a topic that I would enjoy. The opportunity to work on a Hogwarts house sorting survey geared towards your CU Summer Scholars Harry Potter class provided me with that enjoyable topic. As I started to work with the other members of MacAlystre’s Magisters to develop our deliverable‚ I realized that my teamwork
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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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Rubric for Lesson 12 Project on Smallpox Question 1: (Describe the symptoms of smallpox. How would you recognize if a person is suffering from smallpox? Write three or more paragraphs for your answer.) Paragraph 1: (35/35) A description is given for the symptoms of small pox. Paragraph 2: (15/15) What side effects are left behind after the person has recovered from small pox? (15/15) Explain what tests could be given to see if a person is a carrier but not infected. (15/15) The treatments for small
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“Martin Seligman (1975‚ 1976) believed that learned helplessness is the laboratory analogue of reactive depression in humans. Learned helplessness can be defined as a psychological state involving a disturbance of motivation‚ cognitive processes‚ and emotionality as a result of previously experienced uncontrollability on the part of the organism”. (Petri and Govern‚ 2012‚ p.169) In today’s society‚ everyone in their lives go through a state of learned helplessness where they are completely not in
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uniqueness. Culture is learned I would say any culture or sub-culture is learned. It’s environmental. Every culture is learned by the people who live it. Even people born into a culture learn the culture as they grow and mature. I think almost everything is cultured and everyone is cultured. For instance‚ we were born as babies‚ we had not learned anything yet‚ but we were able to cry‚ and express our feelings in certain ways. There was no culture involve until we learned and observed from our
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the schools’ population were used to resolving conflict by retaliating with physical violence. When counseling someone‚ I learned the importance of discovering what conditioning each student had experienced in their life up until the present moment. So many of them experience adults with caution and feel like no matter what they do or say‚ they are always in the wrong. I learned to honor their life experience and after developing a therapeutic alliance‚ managed to invite them to explore their
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I believe that learned helplessness is true (esp. in its connection with depression) but doesn’t explain for all cases. I also believe that learned helplessness is a conditioned response. If you say you are going to fail so many times‚ then you will. Many people relate the two together when they are not always relatable. For instance‚ one might suffer from learned helplessness but could not be depressed‚ or one might be depressed but not have suffered from learned helplessness. But‚ I do believe
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