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190 - Learned Helplessness (rebroadcast)

You Are Not So Smart

CHAPTER

How to Induce Learned Helplessness in a Classroom

Nixon handed out two sets of tests. One test had two easy words and one somewhat challenging one. The third word was sinnerama, which can be rearranged into American. Nixon then goes through a class and asks the people who weren't solving that third word. They said they felt dumb and frustrated and rushed and confused.

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