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Peer reviewedDonovan, Wilberta L.; Leavitt, Lewis A. – Child Development, 1985
Using a version of the "learned helplessness" paradigm, assesses mothers' performance on a solvable task following pretreatments that involved exposure to an infant cry but that differed in the mothers' ability to exert control over termination of the cry. Proposes that learned helplessness models are relevant to the study of…
Descriptors: Helplessness, Infants, Intervention, Mothers
Peer reviewedFincham, Frank D.; And Others – Child Development, 1989
Examines the stability of individual differences in test anxiety and learned helplessness of 82 children in third grade and later in fifth grade. Results indicate that teacher reports of helplessness had the strongest and most consistent relation to concurrent achievement and to achievement test scores two years later. (RJC)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
