their self-concept. Her early research focused on learned helplessness and achievement goal theory, examini... ll learners.
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==== Learned Helplessness and Mastery-Orientation ====
Carol ... ges. Her research showed that children exhibiting learned helplessness tend to attribute failure to fixed, ... =====
* Dweck, C. S., & Reppucci, N. D. (1973). Learned helplessness and reinforcement responsibility in
unable to communicate beyond rudimentary gestures learned from those who cared for her. On the advice of Al... . She also practised a degree of eclecticism: she learned by reading, conversation, travel, lecture, and li
e child's presence: the result was that Montaigne learned Latin as his first language of literacy, "without... moral beings: an education that had made people "learned" rather than "good and wise," that had taught the