Question

Someone who experiences learned helplessness in a particular area is likely to:

a.believe that success in that area is based on effort
b.describe themselves in terms of physical characteristics and not social affiliations
c.believe that success in that area is based on ability
d.lack the ability to take the perspective of their classroom teacher

Answer 1

Answer: [A]: "believe that success in that area is based on effort" .
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Answer 2

a.believe that success in that area is based on effort

Step-by-step explanation:

Learned helplessness: It was developed and conceptualized by a psychologist named Martin E.P. Seligman.

This is defined as a mental phenomenon or state, due to which an organism strives to bear an unwanted, unpleasant, and painful stimuli because they are incapacitated to ignore following encounters of those stimuli even when the situation allows to escape probably due to the mental schema of the situation being learned that it is inescapable.

Example: A girl who is bad in doing mathematics solutions and gets a bad score in the test tends to believe even if she try do learn it next time, she will get a bad score again.

Symptoms:

1. Low self-esteem.

2. Procrastination.

3. Giving up.

4. Inadequate problem-solving ability.

5. Frustration.