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mia · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

Three of the following statements accurately describe how a child can acquire learned helplessness in a particular domain. Which statement is not a likely explanation of learned helplessness?

a. A child has consistently focused on mastery goals, without regard for important performance goals.
b. A child has consistently encountered failure despite hard work and persistence.
c. A parent has consistently encouraged a child to give up when success doesn't come quickly and easily.
d. A child sees most or all peers consistently encountering failure in the domain.

Question 2

One of the history teachers below is violating a principle recommended for promoting long-term memory storage during instruction. Which teacher is doing so?

a. Mr. Annenberg explains to his students how the American Revolution was an almost inevitable outcome of certain English policies at the time.
b. Ms. Bartholomew begins her discussion of the American Civil War by drawing some parallels between it and something the class has already studiedthe American Revolution.
c. At the beginning of a unit on World War I, Mr. Cortez gives his students several questions they should be able to answer at the end of the unit.
d. Ms. DeLuca talks in a relaxed conversational style, describing different battles of World War II as they come to mind.