Learned Helplessness: Example of Learned Helplessness

Seligman Quotes

Success requires persistence, the ability to not give up in the face of failure. I believe that optimistic explanatory style is the key to persistence.
~ Martin Seligman quotes from Learned Optimism

I believe that traditional wisdom is incomplete. A composer can have all the talent of Mozart and a passionate desire to succeed, but if he believes he cannot compose music, he will come to nothing. He will not try hard enough. He will give up too soon when the elusive right melody takes too long to materialize.
~ Martin Seligman quotes from Learned Optimism

martes, 2 de marzo de 2010

Example of Learned Helplessness

Example of Learned Helplessness

A common example of learned helplessness occurs repeatdly at school. Students at school are free to leave their seats and go to the bathroom. Most students realize that by leaving the classroom without consent brings consequences and punishment. Stuendts learn that the best thing to do is stay in the classroom. Learned helplessness then is applied and students feel they have no control of their enviroment, giving teachers a form of mainting control.