![]() ![]() I am such a failure at work, it is just a matter of time that my family and friends abandon me. For example, if a Pessimist goes on a job interview and does not get the position, the pessimists internal dialogue goes like this: “Another rejection! I have been denied so many times, I will never get a good job (Permanent). It all has to do with how we explain our successes and setbacks. ‘I did it and it’s going to help me in every circumstance.” How a pessimist and an optimist explains good and bad events that happen to them. ‘It’s going to undermine everything I do.’ Conversely when a victory occurs (when you win, when a good thing occurs), the optimistic person believes it’s going to last forever. ‘I can change it and it’s just this one situation.’ The pessimistic person, when they have a setback, believes it’s going to last forever. The optimistic person, when they have a setback, believes that it’s temporary. “Optimism … is not the simple glasses half-full verses glasses half-empty, rather it consists of the way that you think about setbacks and the way you think about victories. This experiment led researchers to explore how we can learn optimism. Our beliefs and past experiences can dictate our mindset to be pessimistic or optimistic. This happens to humans and students as well. However, the dog that gave up in the previous cage did not even TRY to escape the second cage? This dog had learned to be helpless. Each cage had a trick latch and the dogs could escape. Next, they took the same two dogs and placed them into 2 new cages. ![]() Martin Seligman at the University of Pennsylvania initiated research on learned helplessness, which was later expanded upon by other researchers. The other dog eventually gave up trying to get out and accepted his situation. The dog in the trick latch cage was able to escape. Both dogs tried to get out of the cage to be free from the shock. ![]() One of the cages had a trick latch that the dog could use to escape. The cages were equipped with a mild electrical shock. Researchers conducted an experiment using 2 dogs and 2 cages. Unfortunately, the one area that they perform high is depression. Children that have learned helplessness tend to perform low in academics, relationships, health, and overall happiness. This is what is called learned helplessness. What do you do with the chronically pessimistic student? You know, the one that gets a bad grade on a minor quiz and automatically believes that they will fail the course, that this will undermine everything they want to accomplish, and that it is their own fault because they think they are not good at…(fill in the blank). ![]()
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