self-efficacy
- Learned helplessness, the failure to escape shock induced by uncontrollable aversive events, was discovered half a century ago. Seligman and Maier (1967) theorized that animals learned that outcomes were independent of their responses—that nothing they did mattered – and that this learning undermined trying to escape. The mechanism of learned helpl... See more
from Learned Helplessness at Fifty: Insights from Neuroscience
Mary Martin added 9mo ago
- When you view a situation as a challenge, you’re combining recognition of the problem that needs to be addressed with faith that you can rise to the occasion and deal with it successfully. Doing this can mobilise one’s positive self-regard and sense of potency.
from How to embrace uncertainty | Psyche Guides by Arie Kruglanski
Mary Martin added 9mo ago
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