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What is helplessness in learning?

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The helplessness of learning is a psychological condition in which a person thinks they cannot control the outcome of the situation after repeated failures or negative experiences and stops trying to improve or change them.

Here is an example of helplessness in learning in class.

lecturer: The biggest fear of teenagers written in this article is not suitable. Jesse, you talked about accepting. Now, to understand how this happens, looks and feels, we’re going to do an activity. It’s an activity that you own, it’s not about taxing you, it’s a simple task. It’s just to make you feel what we’re going through.

Everyone, if they like, take out a short piece of paper. I’m going to delete these papers – bring them face to face. Please, no one writes these; write their own papers.

Does everyone have one? Now, if you want, just do one at a time. I’ll tell you when to do it.

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lecturer: Everyone, flip through the paper and do their own work. This does not mean it is difficult. These are Anagrams, just do the first one. Continue to solve it. Anagram is where you rearrange the letters to form words.

Once done, I need to see your hand lifted. Keep going, we will wait.

Please raise your hand. Just be the first. Don’t continue.

lecturer: OK, let’s keep moving forward. Don’t worry about first place. Go to second position and resolve. Likewise, when you are done, raise your hand.

OK, everyone let it go. We will continue to be third. For third place, rearrange the letters and once you finish, raise your hand.

Here’s what you need to know: You’re getting two different lists. This side of the room gets three words. The left side of the room gets the following: “Bat” – What is the word? The second word is “lemon” – What is Brian?

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Brian: “melon.”

lecturer: Correct. They are simple words. But here is a trick: both sides of the room get the same third word, “cinorama”, which is the field of “America”. However, the first two words you have on this side of the room cannot be solved – this is an impossible task.

I’m sorry for this, but that’s why we do it. I was able to easily induce something “learning helpless” on the left side of the room in about five minutes. I hope you think of what happened on the left side of the room when you see the right side of the room with your hands raised because they have completed the task.

What happened to you during that time? Jori?

Jori: I feel very stupid.

lecturer: You feel stupid. OK what else?

Joel: I feel very anxious.

lecturer: You feel rushed. Joel?

Joel: I’m even more confused.

lecturer: You are even more confused because they have solved it and you are still struggling. Chelsea?

Chelsea: I’m very upset.

lecturer: Frustrated. What happened when you reached the third word? Because I’m telling you here, this side of the room is not obviously smarter than this. This is a random assignment. So why does the third word encounter a more difficult time, and is this the same word? Brian?

Brian: My confidence was shot.

lecturer: Exactly. What you are going through is a term called “helplessness of learning.” How many of you have heard of it before?

lecturer: “The helplessness of learning” is often used in academic literature. Jori, do you know what this means?

Jori: Basically, they fail at once or not and then apply it to everything in the future. Therefore, all future tasks tend to be this.

lecturer: Exactly. That’s what I hope everyone can understand. It is usually only used in academic research – you will see it in educational psychology books, in school textbooks. However, I will challenge us to consider how helplessness of learning is applied to social scenarios. Can someone give me an example of the appearance? Tasha?

Tasha: It’s like a man asking a girl when he’s rejected when he’s out and he won’t keep trying. He just stopped asking.

lecturer: That’s right. Now, I hope we think about girls. We’ve talked about it The Revival of Ophelia here. Think about how this applies to friendship. Can it cause helplessness in learning in friendship? Building and maintaining friendships is hard – it’s a difficult process.

If a girl once sacrificed her morality to gain recognition from a friend or a man, she is more likely to continue doing so, right?

lecturer: And I just put this in there explicitly: If Carl was hurt in elementary school, is it possible that he would stand up next time?

student: No.

lecturer: What will happen next time? And the next one? All we know – that’s what we’ve been learning – girls are stressed about keeping quiet. Girls are under pressure to be educated, don’t be angry, don’t use their own voice. So if someone has ever been victimized (if Alison is victimized once), we can take the same concept of learning helplessness and apply it to social relations.

Therefore, the moral of the story is that for girls, practicing handling failure is important. Because our gut reaction (when we fail) is closed. When you close, you won’t be open to learning new ways of relationships.

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