Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Motivation Post 2
Hannah has learned helplessness.
Another reason she may be behaving this way is because she has low self
efficacy, she believes that there is nothing for her to do to become smarter. I
think it is important for Hannah to see that she can make small goals and
achieve them. I would give her problems to work on that she can accomplish, and
build her confidence to get through harder problems. I would not worry about
accuracy at first for Hannah. I think that once she believes she can put the
effort in the problem, the right answer will take care of itself. If the
teacher helped her make a journal of success it could display what achievements
she has made and continue to grow as a student.
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I just want to distinguish how you're describing self efficacy and something like attribution. Self efficacy is just the belief of whether or not you can do something--Hannah shows this because she appears to lack confidence in her own ability or competence. If she's ALSO showing that she believes intelligence is stable and uncontrollable, that is something explainable by attribution.
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