“The relationship between problem behavior and academic difficulties is complex, and some researchers have hypothesized that the classroom behavior problems of students with E/BD are responses to aversive stimuli, namely ineffective academic instruction and/or difficult tasks. The authors suggest that learned helplessness might further explain some of the academic and behavioral deficits that characterize students with E/BD” (Sutherland, K. S., & Singh, N. N. 2004. P. 169). He discusses how learned helplessness helps him go more into depth with his research and findings. With this intention “If this hypothesis is supported then future research to investigate what specific skills are learned, how they are learned, and what conditions enhance or hinder the learning process would be warranted in order to more fully develop the theory” (Zimmerman, M. A. 1990. P.76). So, as long as past research can predict future research its important to test the …show more content…
He implies that “Some possible ways to apply the learned helplessness model to health and illness are sketched“(p. 153). The purpose of the author was not to curb interest in applying learned helplessness to health psychology but to caution that many instance of human helplessness and not learned helplessness” (Peterson, 1982, p. 164). In my understanding and reading the article the authors seem to be more interested in the detail of the real meaning of learned helplessness.
Nevertheless in the one of the articles the author goal was to find whether “individuals could employ goal-directed attention and deploy their attention toward happy faces, and away from angry faces, a bias index was created that was similar to what is used commonly in the attention bias literature (e.g., Wilson & MacLeod, 2003)”(Johnson, 2009, P. 10). Both authors agree on learned helplessness is more then it’s meaning. I agree because different studies have shown different