Psychology: Learned Helplessness
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What is the term for the habitual way people explain why bad events happen to them?

  • Learned helplessness
  • Motivational deficits
  • Explanatory style (correct)
  • Attributional style

    • What is the result of people believing their world is largely uncontrollable?

  • Depression
  • Increased willingness to try
  • Motivational deficits
  • Learned helplessness (correct)

    • What is the term for the relationship between a person's behavior and the environment's outcomes?

  • Contingency (correct)
  • Explanatory style
  • Attributional style
  • Learned helplessness

    • What is the outcome of people overestimating their extent of control?

    <p>Inaccurate perception of control</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary goal of a Prevention Focus strategy?

    <p>To stay committed and protect one's commitments</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is characterized by feelings of listlessness, demoralized coping behavior, and decreased willingness to try?

    <p>Learned helplessness</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the consequence of procrastination according to the text?

    <p>Losing motivation to earn high GPA</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the key difference between Growth and Fixed mindsets?

    <p>The belief that personal qualities can be changed or are fixed</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are the three components of learned helplessness?

    <p>Contingency, cognition, and behavior</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the result of exerting effort with eagerness and approach?

    <p>Feelings of interest, enjoyment, and satisfaction</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the key characteristic of a person with a Growth mindset?

    <p>They believe that effort can lead to improvement</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary goal of increasing motivation to earn high GPA?

    <p>To prevent oneself from procrastinating</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the initial stage of effective self-regulation?

    <p>Forethought</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the primary difference between students who are good at self-regulating their learning and those who are not?

    <p>Their ability to set academic goals for themselves</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the outcome of lacking self-regulation skills?

    <p>Unable to regulate one’s goals, implementation intentions, and coping strategies in a new direction</p> Signup and view all the answers

    According to Schunk and Zimmerman (1997), what is self-regulation?

    <p>A skill that needs to be acquired, improved, and refined</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the purpose of reflection in self-regulation?

    <p>To self-evaluate goal striving and revise goals and strategies as needed</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is metacognitive monitoring involved in self-regulation?

    <p>The person’s monitoring of how his or her goal-setting progress is going</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is self-control, according to the text?

    <p>An energy reserve that exists in only a limited amount</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What happens when a person's glucose is depleted?

    <p>Their self-control decreases</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the benefit of goal disengagement?

    <p>It helps a person to avoid accumulated failure experiences</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the result of pursuing long-term goals that satisfy the psychological needs of autonomy, competence, and relatedness?

    <p>No depletion of glucose and good performance</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the effect of being in a positive mood state on self-control?

    <p>It increases self-control</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How can self-control strength be enhanced?

    <p>Through practice</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the focus of mastery goals?

    <p>Developing one's competence and making progress</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What type of mindset is associated with ability criticism?

    <p>Fixed mindset</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the main difference between growth mindset and fixed mindset?

    <p>Entity-oriented vs. incremental-oriented</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the purpose of praise in a growth mindset?

    <p>To emphasize effort and strategy</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the characteristic of performance goals?

    <p>Concerned with looking smart and not looking dumb</p> Signup and view all the answers

    According to Dweck and Leggett, what is the essence of achievement goals?

    <p>Face a standard of excellence</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Study Notes

    Learned Helplessness

    • Three components of learned helplessness: contingency, cognition, and behavior
    • Contingency: objective relationship between a person's behavior and the environment's outcomes
    • Cognition: subjective personal control beliefs, biases, attributions, and expectancies
    • Behavior: listless, demoralized coping behavior

    Effects of Helplessness

    • Three effects: motivational deficits, learning deficits, and emotional deficits
    • Motivational deficits: decreased willingness to try, "Why try?"
    • Learning deficits: acquired pessimistic set that interferes with learning new response-outcome contingencies
    • Emotional deficits: energy-depleting emotions such as listlessness, apathy, and depression

    Helplessness and Depression

    • Key question: Is depression caused by people's belief that their world is largely an uncontrollable place?
    • Answer: No, depressed individuals accurately assess their extent of control
    • Non-depressed individuals overestimate their control (extent of perceived control > actual objective control)

    Explanatory Style

    • Relatively stable, cognitively-based personality variable that reflects the habitual way people explain reasons for bad events
    • Definition: reflects the habitual way people explain the reasons why bad events happen to them

    Promotion Focus and Prevention Focus

    • Promotion focus: exertion of effort, motivation, and performance are best when striving with eagerness and approach
    • Prevention focus: exertion of effort, motivation, and performance are best when striving with vigilance and avoidance

    Mindset

    • Growth mindset: belief that personal qualities are malleable, changeable, and can be developed through effort
    • Fixed mindset: belief that personal qualities are fixed, set, and not open to change

    Self-Regulation

    • Planning and strategic thinking, implementing action and self-control, monitoring and checking, and reflecting and adjusting
    • Involves metacognitive monitoring of goal-setting progress
    • Effective self-regulation begins and ends with effective forethought

    Social Learning Process

    • Self-regulation as a skill of the self that needs to be acquired, improved, and refined
    • Lack of self-regulation skill: unable to regulate goals, implementation intentions, and coping strategies

    Goal Attainment

    • Self-regulation success: long-term goal attainment through self-regulation
    • Depletion: self-control depletes glucose, leading to long-term goal failure

    Adaptive Self-Regulation

    • Ability to withdraw effort and commitment from an unattainable goal (goal disengagement) is an adaptive facet of effective self-regulation
    • Helps to avoid accumulated failure experiences, redefine goals, and free personal resources

    Happiness, Arousal, and Control

    • Individual differences in happiness, arousal, and control

    Origins of Growth-Fixed Mindsets

    • Ability praise: "You are so smart!" tends to grow children's ability attributions and fixed mindset
    • Ability criticism: "I'm very disappointed in you" tends to grow children's ability attributions and fixed mindset
    • Effort/strategy praise: "You worked so hard!" tends to grow children's effort/strategy attributions and growth mindset
    • Effort/strategy criticism: "Perhaps you could think of another way to do it" tends to grow children's effort/strategy attributions and growth mindset

    Cognitive Models of Achievement Goals

    • Mastery goals: seek to develop competence, make progress, and improve the self through intense and persistent effort
    • Performance goals (fixed mindset): seek to demonstrate or prove one's competence, concerned with looking smart and not looking dumb

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    This quiz covers the concept of learned helplessness, its components, and its effects on motivation, learning, and behavior. Learn about the contingency, cognition, and biases related to helplessness. Test your knowledge of this psychology topic!

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