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- Repeated negative experiences can lead individuals to believe they are incapable of success, even when opportunities are attainable.
- Learned helplessness results from attributing negative events to internal, stable, and global factors, leading to fatalistic thinking.
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The phenomenon of learned helplessness induced in a classroom setting by a psychology professor through an anagram activity
In a classroom demonstration by a psychology professor named Shariz Nixon, students were unknowingly divided into two groups receiving impossible anagram tasks. The students who were frustrated by the impossible tasks exhibited learned helplessness, where they felt dumb and discouraged. This experiment highlighted how repeated negative experiences can lead individuals to believe that they are incapable of success, even when the opportunity is actually attainable.
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