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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
Gentile, J. Ronald; Monaco, Nanci M. – Focus on Learning Problems in Mathematics, 1988
Describes the theory and known influences on learned helplessness, particularly in the mathematics field, and discusses prevention and remediation with respect to this phenomenon. (PK)
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Attribution Theory, Cognitive Development, Emotional Development
