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To Succeed or Not to Succeed: Is That the Only Question in Learned Helplessness? A Critical Analysis of Theoretical and Methodological Issues.

Mark, Sandra Fay – 1978

Instrumentation, task content, the limited options of success or failure, methodology and assumptions are substantive issues which question the validity of conclusions made about human subjects in studies of achievement motivation and learned helplessness. A review of learned helplessness studies outlines the number and source of subjects, kinds…

Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Behavior Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Goal Orientation