r/BeAmazed • u/ReesesNightmare • 23h ago

Science Learned Helplessness

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u/Mou_aresei 20h ago

How do we know this is learned helplessness instead of the participants just extrapolating the impossibility of solving the third question based on the previous two? Or is that the same thing?

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u/ReesesNightmare 19h ago

pretty much the same thing. i wouldn't say they necessarily think its impossible but definitely the difficulty of the first two is enough to frazzle you on the third. That you believe theyre all possible, but just not smart enough to figure it out.