What is learned helplessness?
What will be an ideal response?
Seligman proposed that whereas some people confronting stressors can learn to be helpless—known as learned helplessness (a passive state analogous to depressed states). Persons in a state of learned helplessness believe that their efforts will not affect outcomes--they expect defeat--because they do not see a relationship between their efforts and results.
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Regarding "yo-yo dieting," which of the following statements is/are TRUE?
a. "Yo-yo dieting" lowers the body's set point for fat. b. "Yo-yo dieting" tends to speed up the body's metabolic rate. c. "Yo-yo dieting" actually makes it harder to lose weight when dieting and easier to regain weight when the dieting ends. d. "Yo-yo dieting" is characterized by all of these statements.
Cocaine use during pregnancy now appears to be associated with
A. no consistent negative associations with physical growth, test scores, or language in children. B. about one-third of all cases of mental retardation. C. ADHD and depression in school-age children. D. greater neonatal problems than alcohol or tobacco.
From his work at the Binet Institute in Paris, Piaget concluded that:
a. children's incorrect answers resulted from inconsistent cognitive processing. b. only children's correct answers demonstrated what they were thinking. c. children's incorrect answers followed consistent cognitive processes. d. there was nothing to learn about cognitive processes from children's incorrect answers.
Which of the following researchers was an ethologist?
a. Freud c. Piaget b. Lorenz d. Bandura