دراسات نفسية وتربوية
Volume 12, Numéro 1, Pages 51-62
1996-11-15

Response To Failure And The Transfer Of Its Effects

Authors : Rachid Messili .

Abstract

The concept of learned helplessness which usually used to describe the behavior that individual exhibits when he/she believes that his/ her actions makes no differences in bringing about an outcome, was originated in animal experiments that investigate the relationship of fear conditioning to instrumental learning. What about human learning? this is question that we debate in this article.

Keywords

response, failure, learned helplessness, instrumental learning