ERIC Number: EJ534652
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1996
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ISSN: ISSN-1080-3564
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Sara Won't Try.
Crosser, Sandra
Early Childhood News, v8 n6 p17-18 Nov-Dec 1996
Presents a case study illustrating learned helplessness orientation in preschool children and how adult responses to a child's successes and failures directly influence a child's perception of his or her abilities. Suggests that teachers should compliment successes by highlighting the ability demonstrated and address failures with comments concerning effort. (SD)
Descriptors: Ability, Academic Achievement, Behavior Patterns, Case Studies, Conditioning, Emotional Response, Failure, Fear, Helplessness, Influences, Inhibition, Patterned Responses, Performance Factors, Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Psychological Characteristics, Responses, Student Motivation, Success, Teacher Influence
Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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