Poor Performance After Unsolvable Problems [electronic resource] : Learned Helplessness or Self-Esteem Protection? / Arthur Frankel and Melvin L. Snyder.

People often perform poorly on tasks following experience with unsolvable problems. Two competing explanations for this performance deficit (learned helplessness and egotism) were tested. Subjects were given either solvable or unsolvable discrimination problems and then a series of anagrams which we...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ERIC)
Main Author:	Frankel, Arthur
Other Authors:	Snyder, Melvin L.
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[S.l.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1978.
Subjects:	Attribution Theory. Cognitive Style. Individual Psychology. Information Seeking. Motivation. Performance Factors. Persistence. Psychological Characteristics. Self Esteem. Task Performance. Testing Problems.