Author Question: Learned helplessness results when children a. learn that, by acting helpless, they can get their ... (Read 145 times)

jrubin · **on:** Sep 14, 2018

Learned helplessness results when children

a. learn that, by acting helpless, they can get their parents to do things for them.

b. whose parents are responsive to crying learn to cry more often.

c. come to enjoy pretending to be helpless.

d. become passive in situations where they have learned that their actions do not influence events.

Question 2

When people experience learned helplessness, they think that their low ability for some skill or activity is

a. fixed and unchangeable.

b. changeable through effort.

c. higher for girls than for boys.

d. attributable to the low quality of instruction they have received.