EDPSY 014 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Learned Helplessness
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1: stable or unstable, controllable or not. The way people attribute success determines how they are going to act next time. Did well because of luck or did bad because unlucky. Next time they will hope they get lucky again. No change in study behavior or less studying: teacher. Might not study next time: ability (i"m good at it) Uncontrollable the way the person looks at that interpretation. If you think you"re bad at it, then you wont try hard at it. If you think you are good at it, then you won"t study more possibly less: effort. Did bad on a test because of own effort study harder. The attribution that leads to success at anything. Learned helplessness- when someone learns that they are not good at something. They say that its because you helped me: goes from internal to external. We should be teaching students how to attribute effort.