Question

When he was a child, Charlie had a lot of trouble with math. Eventually, he developed the belief that he would never be able to perform well, no matter how hard he tried. Even after he got personalized tutoring to meet his needs, he continued to believe there was no point in trying in his math classes, since he would fail anyway. What is the name for these kinds of beliefs?

Answer 1

Learned helplessness

Step-by-step explanation:

Learned Helplessness Effect

This was said to be discovered by the scientists called Overmier and Martin Seligman in 1967. The finding shows that inescapable shock acts as an hindrance with subsequent escape learning

Learned Helplessness

This cover the basis that organisms that were in contact to inescapable and unavoidable shocks learn that their actions do not control environmental outcomes.

This is a feeling or belief by an individual that is/has been learned and the individual believe that He/she is helpless and unable to have any effect on events in His/her lives, so they rather give up trying. it occurs when humans have been conditioned themselves to expect pain, suffering, or discomfort without any way out and due to long time conditioning, the person will stop trying to avoid the pain at all even when an opportunity present itself to truly avoid it.