I don't like the way it is put here. There is nothing absolute about learned helplessness: They make it seem that everybody will behave in that way, which is not the case. Of the 150 dogs in experiments in the 1960s, about one-third did not become helpless, but instead managed to find a way out of the unpleasant situation despite their past experience with it. The corresponding characteristic in humans has been found to correlate highly with optimism. It how they view the situation.
I had a professor who did that same exact assignment last semester. It's useful. I just wish my professor could've been this entertaining for the rest of the lecture. Power points suck.
How many Lies do you think you have told in your life? Have you ever stolen anything, even something small? Have you ever looked at a person with lust? Ever used GOD's name as a curse word? If you have, GOD sees you as a Lying, thieving, blasphemous, adulterer at heart. The Guilty will end up in Hell. That's not GOD's will. You broke GOD's laws, but Jesus paid your fine! (IF) you Repent, and trust in Christ alone, GOD will forgive every sin you have ever committed, and grant you Eternal life
@EXALTEDDIRT If God is all knowing and that's what he thinks of me, then he is wrong and obviously doesn't know everything. So I conclude your deity is either wrong or does not exist. Case closed.
The new world order might have their finger prints left from the deaths of these celebrities but I do believe that God is showing everybody how helpless they are. Do anybody really stop to think about what this country has really become? How this country has turned into a helpless country? This isn't some late nite comedy show. This is real life. It's not funny all the time. It's good to joke around from time to time but let's not be ignorant about the truth.
@Huck1942 THANK YOU!!!! I agree 100%. The funny thing is, the first example that pops into the girls head is a boy who is refused by a girl. There's not much on earth that kills your will power more than that - and it's a male problem alone! Not to mention expectations on career and so on.
Awesome lesson, and I don't doubt the theory at all. But all the camera angles did make it seem a little staged, especially since we never saw other cameramen in wide shots of the room.
tell meone thing ... im a student of Msc Psychology... b4 sm days we read about learned helplessness in major depressive mood disorders..that the ppl learned to b hopeless which make them more depressed.
Now I understand why many boys drop out in school frequently here in America. There is a study that boys and girls do their best in school if they are schooled in a same gender classroom for it is less pressure and less distraction and the methods are suited to their gender.
when they lie to you , you have to think about more bits of information,[ your own ideas plus theirs,] and it takes more time to see if they can be matched up or not. That's how we learn . Then you also have to deal with being sad and/or angry about people. The dog on the box is neither giving up, nor is he stupid. He has common sense.
They did an experiment where they put dogs in a big box wherein stepping on certain tiles created a shock. The dogs would move to avoid the shock tiles. Then they increased the numbers of tiles that shocked them, till there were fewer and fewer safe spots for the dog to find. Eventually they made all tiles shock the dogs. In the final step, there was only one shock tile, but they placed the dog directly on it when set in the box and the dog just lied down on it. Sad how humans give up too.
You're not? Sorry. D: Lol, at the biology remark. :D I didn't mean males and females lived completely the same way, (especially not THAT way - we'd die out!) XP but that we generally have the same opportunities concerning sports, jobs, education, and recreation. Women being percieved as sex objects comes across (to me) not so much as full-scale oppression, but as stereotyping. The same thing happens to males, I know. :\
Learned helplessness is what some employers inflict on some employees. It done so they just function robotically and don't climb. Every effort to do well is thwarted and made difficult or impossible. Then your also punished socially. Where for others (the chosen ones) its made super easy to do well as they are given a structured path.
Girls have a cultural pressure to be quiet? Girls have a cultural pressure not to show their emotions? Oh man. Now I know what the anti-feminists meant when they said the school system is female centric.
@xXPinkGoddessXx Actually, it's true. In many cultures, girls do have a cultural pressure to act how they're told, usually by an older male, such as her husband or father, and not how they want to act. Though, this isn't neccessarily true for many cultures. For example, in NZ, where I live, girls have just as much of a tendency to be rough, loud, or quiet as any guy. Both genders live the same way.
@FaeryRibbon Women don't have the same tendencies as men anywhere in those areas, and both genders certainly do not live the same way. It's certainly politically correct to pretend that nowadays, but any serious studies of psychology, cross-cultural behaviour, or biology will tell you otherwise.
@xXPinkGoddessXx I think that the male sex drive is played upon in advertising because it's so effective. Unfortunately, it makes women seem a bit like toys. (>that< kind of toy) o_O This implies that women can be used and tossed aside by males, and that we have no real worth other than to please them. I'm not saying that all males see women as objects, but that the media lets this by-product form in society through their methods of advertising. By the way, what do you mean by "sexual power"?
@xXPinkGoddessXx I'm guessing you're American? (Just guessing - don't shoot me if I'm wrong!) D: From what I know, America on the whole is pretty prone to stereotyping, especially towards gender. Women are often considered inferior, & sex objects . That's just the general feel people get about females. However, it's also known that women are just as capable as men in most areas, and better in others. It's an even sort of battle. Still, women are often pressured to be, well... useless. :\
@FaeryRibbon No, I'm not American. Please point me to some examples of women being considered inferior in America. Their being perceived as sexual objects is not a sign of inferiority, it is a by-product of the male sex drive (unless you consider sexual power a disadvantage?) Countries where women are truly oppressed have the most sexually conservative attitudes toward women.
@xXPinkGoddessXx "Countries where women are truly oppressed have the most sexually conservative attitudes toward women." I've never thought about it from that angle. :\ I suppose that may just be true, because there's a modesty to it. I think the reason places like that annoy me is because while women are being protected they can also be caused discomfort in a different way. For example, Burqas are often uncomfortable, and easy to trip in. (Which sounds silly, but I'd resent wearing one.
@xXPinkGoddessXx But, anyway. I'm getting a little tired of this conversation. We've been talking for ages, and I'm forgetting where we started off. I'm happy to continue talking with you, if you'd like to continue, or you have more questions, and if I come up with some to ask you, but I think I'd rather not be debating, especially on a youtube video (where people get really grumpy). :D
@matleyz except that's two words ;). and it's a name of a company which is capitalized, and in general, you don't use capitalized words in puzzles (and so in anagrams).
@ewyll Heh. There are lots of words with spaces, such as "ice cream". If you want to work within self-imposed restrictions like no capitalized words, that's fine but it sounds like learned helplessness to me. ;-) Take care.
@lauriewhitehurst85: "How dumb were some of these people to not realize some of those anagrams were fake, I mean... come on, I only had to look at them for a few seconds "
You think you know so much, that you can't fit any new knowledge into your arrogant ego. Good job at failing to understand the science here, after all, you're obviously too smart to acknowledge the idiosyncrasies and fragility of our intricate, yet often faulty minds. I applaud you.
Can we induce learned helplessness? It's being done right now, hell if I had a dollar for the number of requirements jobs ask for. Most students/workers can get by if they do not have learning disabilities.
The lesson is nice, but as a student, I think that calling up your students from time to time just to give definitions which you should be stating is such a bother and disrupts the overall flow of the lesson. At least for me. Like when she calls for a def of "learned helplessness"
Very interesting up until 6:08, when a blanket statement is spoon fed with no support in what was demonstrated earlier.
My own experience was a bit different. In 6th grade, 1986, a girl stole my eraser, then when I yelled at her she went to the teacher (a man, who wasn't paying any attention to anything), and within 10 seconds he was screaming his balls off at me and I spent the rest of the day being punished. I didn't see Charisse Nixon, Ph.D there asking me how I felt about the whole thing.
Corrupt government continue to abuse the people and victimize them, then the people feel helpless and stop trying to get their rights because the government abuses the people and makes them be helpless. It is not learned, it is inflicted & forced on others because people have previous experience where doing something did not produce a result. Learn is the wrong word to use. This will soon be put into books to correct the problem. A conscious response reaction to abuse or condition acceptance.
@exdeeer LOL why would the government want to abuse people? to enslave them and use them and profit from their misery, because these people are psychopaths & enjoy bringing pain and suffering. others are plain gready and want to profit from people. The website that explains many things is MayaBell. com read the front page then enter the website and watch the videos & read the comments. Then you would be a much more aware of what is going on. Ignorance is not bliss.
Oh, you're right! They just closed down this bridge that allows me to get to school in 10 minutes, but now I have to drive another way that takes 20 minutes. I've been loosing an extra 10 minutes of sleep everyday now. I knew they were just after my misery and not trying to repair the bridge that has a huge crack in it.
not fixing a bridge doesn't do them any good. imagine if the bridge wasn't fixed, so everyone on either side of the bridge had a legitimate excuse not to go to work, or to be later.
people would have time to themselves to just be free. becoming free is like opening a window in a stale room, you can breathe again. the difference is subtle but powerful. organizers of large groups of people understand these subtle powerful differences.
they also understand when organizing large groups of people..
It seems like a rather brief yet good example of the concept. I'm sure that it happens on a regular basis expressing itself in many different ways, yet without drawing much attention. I would rather enjoy another video displaying the ways of reversing it as well, if possible.
We the people need to unite and demand private schools & we control what our children learn. Same with TV, our own channels. Then our own government not run by the elite criminals and large corporations.
If you actually believe what you are saying; you would abolish the media and your government because both are abusing the people & making us helpless. We don't learn to be helpless, we are manipulated into being helpless. The two groups got a different set of words; one group had easy words to re-arrange while the other had difficult words. The students did not know this. You don't learn nothing on your own; it is impossed on you by a corrupt evil society that manipulates you into believing it.
I don't see any reason to abolish the meda or the govt. And it's not an either or situation. We do get manipulated routinely but we also learn to be helpless. The two are not mutually exclusive as you're implying. The demonstration was very thought provoking. She was able to demonstrate the concept very quickly.
helplessness is not learned & is not a disease. Helplessness is a normal reaction to outside conditions that affect a person or any living being. You are welcome to continue to believe what people tell you to believe & conform. It take one insane person PHD or MD to say something is so & people would believe it for many years until proven false or they continue to believe nonsense. I am helpless in that I have to deal with a dumb & insane world filled with wars & disease etc. nobody listens.
@mayabell.......u seem very conflicted about this topic. stop venting your anger on psychology just because u have issues in your personal life. I suggest that you should study psychology...then you can form opinions. Stop acting tough just because you are anonymous online.
@sopo1 wow so much nonsense in one sentence I have never seen before. I have a BA in psychology and if you go to the website mayabell. com. psychology page you will see how much I know. And learned is not the same as being manipulated & lied to.
"You are welcome to continue to believe what people tell you to believe & conform." Er...isn't that what you're doing? Telling everyone what to believe? "It take one insane person PHD or MD to say something is so & people would believe it" Um...weren't you that one insane person with the BA that kept constantly plugging in your site like it was the new rick roll, post after post?
@CertainAsTheSun That is not what I said, I said research and confirm for yourself. Only most people are not capable of doing that so they go by what everybody else believes or what some experts say about an issue. I am giving my explanation, you can read it and decide (bests after research & examination) but don't just go with what is the popular or the authorities or some other special interests pushing a particular view point. Crazies can't think & analyze and go by what others say alone.
I feel like my childhood and teenage years were plagued by learned helplessness. What could have been done? How could they have taught me that certain pressure points on my life might have an impact on anything I do, even when they arn't connected?
Learned helplessness has a great deal of parallels with depression and is cured pretty much the same way, and that's through empowerment. Volunteering, therapy, and doing things you are good at and things that give you a lift are all things that can overcome learned helplessness. A person that has learned helplessness usually doesn't see it that way, and so I doubt that in the midst of your childhood you would have found it easy to seek help and ask these questions.
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Therapy is fraud. They never get to the cause of the problem. They keep going around the problem, as solving the cause will end the effects. And nothing abnormal about any of the psychological reactions of people to the abnormal external stimuli. If we use wisdom & knowledge, we can eliminate the cause & our suffering will end soon after. We might be traumatized for a while but we heal. Because when bad people & circumstances cause us harm, we get hurt (physically & emotionally) MayaBell. com.
It is deliberate by the elite that sets up a society which takes away the powers of the people and puts them in their hands. When somebody tries to be my boss & make decisions for me, it angers me greatly as I hate being controlled & made helpless. I am no S&M material. Some people get off on doing the degrading, and I am not into that sick behavior either. It is all about making us sick & weak by forcing us to have low self estime. She explains it as if it's our fault. We're forced into it.
They did not teach you, they conditioned (not same as teaching) it is more like manipulated & forced on you (thru accepting is as society's norms) Visit MayaBell. com for more informative & revealing videos.
Ive read the books Learned Helplessness and Learned Optimism. The whole idea is to discover areas in your life where you have developed this conditioning and change it, resulting in learned optimism.
The book goes into depth about its theories and explains how certain genetic traits were passed on through human evolution, but I am sure you know al about the theory and have read the work on it before making your comment, right?
More silly psychobabble. Let's say she's correct and failure once does cause some people to "shut down" - if that were the case for everyone, then nothing would have ever been invented or accomplished by men or women. EVERYONE will have more failures than successes in life, so you better learn how to fail and learn from your failures. You won't always have trained seal teachers around to give you pats on the head or "positive reinforcement". It's 2009 and girls aren't conditioned 2 b quiet.
Psychobabble? Martin EB Seligman conducted tests concerning Learned Helplessness for decades and because of his work along with others he was nominated President of the American Psychological Association.
It's a simple theory regarding conditioning, just as Pavlov and his famous dogs proved you could condition a response from repetition, Seligman showed in those same types of animals that if nothing they did ever got the electric shocks to stop, they stopped trying, learned helplessness.
This is a lesson worth sharing. The readers comments below infer this class was only 5 minutes long. The teacher had plenty of time in the rest of the class and the rest of the semester, to make certain both the girls and the boys got plenty of doses of postivie reinforcement.
Dictating to girls that they're under "cultural pressure to be quiet" is Teaching Helplessness, and the notion that you need to "practice" to resolve this is idiotic. First the good Dr Nixon regurgitates a concept [LH] that transcends gender, only to contradict herself as she hops up on her psycho-tripe-pony to spew a stream of bug-eyed SCARE-gabbling into guileless young heads. Peddling similarly dough-headed rhetoric in a university wouldn't wash. This video pulsates with irony.
The problem with the way this teacher handled this is that she used "girls" as a test case, as if boys are bad, many of these types of people are creating divisions in our society in this way. Boys have the same type of manipulation played on them by teachers.
This technique has been used for thousands of years and is used by politicians who create apathetic populations by saying one thing and doing the opposite like not bringing our troops home when they said they would.
Why would someone try if all they know is failure and shame
SuperChickenWuss 1 week ago
That was inspiring and amazing.
Tiwaking 1 week ago
What an amazing teacher. God I love psychology. I knew all of this already but she still made it so interesting.
peppermint23 1 month ago
"Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic."
MrErikmosher 1 month ago
@MrErikmosher
the ark is fictional
titanic is not
TheMisterinn 1 week ago
I don't like the way it is put here. There is nothing absolute about learned helplessness: They make it seem that everybody will behave in that way, which is not the case. Of the 150 dogs in experiments in the 1960s, about one-third did not become helpless, but instead managed to find a way out of the unpleasant situation despite their past experience with it. The corresponding characteristic in humans has been found to correlate highly with optimism. It how they view the situation.
Cinqmil 1 month ago
Wow this has actually helped me since I as almost everybody have experienced this in my own life. What a good teacher she must be.
ruben18able 2 months ago
I had a professor who did that same exact assignment last semester. It's useful. I just wish my professor could've been this entertaining for the rest of the lecture. Power points suck.
animelover101591 2 months ago
Excellent Video! What a smart teacher :D
halsviews 2 months ago
How many Lies do you think you have told in your life? Have you ever stolen anything, even something small? Have you ever looked at a person with lust? Ever used GOD's name as a curse word? If you have, GOD sees you as a Lying, thieving, blasphemous, adulterer at heart. The Guilty will end up in Hell. That's not GOD's will. You broke GOD's laws, but Jesus paid your fine! (IF) you Repent, and trust in Christ alone, GOD will forgive every sin you have ever committed, and grant you Eternal life
EXALTEDDIRT 3 months ago
@EXALTEDDIRT And what does this have to do with anything?
animelover101591 2 months ago
@EXALTEDDIRT If God is all knowing and that's what he thinks of me, then he is wrong and obviously doesn't know everything. So I conclude your deity is either wrong or does not exist. Case closed.
MrTodd623 2 days ago
The new world order might have their finger prints left from the deaths of these celebrities but I do believe that God is showing everybody how helpless they are. Do anybody really stop to think about what this country has really become? How this country has turned into a helpless country? This isn't some late nite comedy show. This is real life. It's not funny all the time. It's good to joke around from time to time but let's not be ignorant about the truth.
hstone39 3 months ago
the moral of the story DONT CLOSE UP YOUR MIND , BECAUSE LEARNING IS AN EVERDAY THING! JESUS CHRIST!
qiqi9057033 4 months ago
@qiqi9057033 You advice to learn anything/everything and accept it as fact? good idea!
musicplayah 2 months ago
bad creepy filming
waksibra 4 months ago
precursor to depression. learned helplessness -> hopelessness
ykohtube 4 months ago
In summary: You lose hope, you lose the will to try.
On another note, I wish I had a cool teacher like her. My professors were so boring...
MrChristianRC 6 months ago 11
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Huck1942 6 months ago 2
@Huck1942 THANK YOU!!!! I agree 100%. The funny thing is, the first example that pops into the girls head is a boy who is refused by a girl. There's not much on earth that kills your will power more than that - and it's a male problem alone! Not to mention expectations on career and so on.
assailant85 4 months ago
@Huck1942 COINTELPROが被害者を自殺させるのに用る【学習性無力感 Learned Helplessness】を教室でシミュレーション。教師はたった５分で見事、作為的に半数の生徒にCOINTELPROプチ被害体験をdemonstrationさせている。
本物のCOINTELPRO被害者はこれが毎日、数年以上続き、欝や自殺に追い込まれている
GroundZeroHiroshima 4 months ago
hot for teacher
hailwindham 7 months ago
I want to be in that class!
Happypast 8 months ago
@Happypast Me too!
AmericaROCKS23 8 months ago
Good teaching
Examiner86 10 months ago 15
Awesome lesson, and I don't doubt the theory at all. But all the camera angles did make it seem a little staged, especially since we never saw other cameramen in wide shots of the room.
AceTheSalmon 11 months ago
tell meone thing ... im a student of Msc Psychology... b4 sm days we read about learned helplessness in major depressive mood disorders..that the ppl learned to b hopeless which make them more depressed.
shaileykhan 11 months ago
Now I understand why many boys drop out in school frequently here in America. There is a study that boys and girls do their best in school if they are schooled in a same gender classroom for it is less pressure and less distraction and the methods are suited to their gender.
fitzerg 11 months ago
Loved it!!!!!
MsRESPECT90 11 months ago
Liked the lesson, helped me with my studies.
Just gotta say though; There were a whole lot of ugly people in that classroom.
chancho1010 11 months ago
@chancho1010 lolz
MeisterHydron 9 months ago
when they lie to you , you have to think about more bits of information,[ your own ideas plus theirs,] and it takes more time to see if they can be matched up or not. That's how we learn . Then you also have to deal with being sad and/or angry about people. The dog on the box is neither giving up, nor is he stupid. He has common sense.
Nadiallelel 11 months ago
There's a contradictory proof here in the tendency to not challenge the ideas a teacher puts out.
EnricCirne 1 year ago
They did an experiment where they put dogs in a big box wherein stepping on certain tiles created a shock. The dogs would move to avoid the shock tiles. Then they increased the numbers of tiles that shocked them, till there were fewer and fewer safe spots for the dog to find. Eventually they made all tiles shock the dogs. In the final step, there was only one shock tile, but they placed the dog directly on it when set in the box and the dog just lied down on it. Sad how humans give up too.
acousticcarnival 1 year ago
Stupidity this profound can never be learned--or induced.
ColonelZagbar 1 year ago
Very great Lesson.
Thanks.
GreenDevilAngel 1 year ago
well awsome.. i othr words u r trying to say that we generalize our negative experiences on our future things?
shaileykhan 1 year ago
@shaileykhan yes, if people fail several times at certain things at life they begin to try less and less and eventually stop trying.
devlin604 1 year ago
Be interesting to time them for each task, and to have a confidence rating scale and or mood choice.
psipsychologytutor 1 year ago
You're not? Sorry. D: Lol, at the biology remark. :D I didn't mean males and females lived completely the same way, (especially not THAT way - we'd die out!) XP but that we generally have the same opportunities concerning sports, jobs, education, and recreation. Women being percieved as sex objects comes across (to me) not so much as full-scale oppression, but as stereotyping. The same thing happens to males, I know. :\
FaeryRibbon 1 year ago
it was good until 6:32
tiltm0d3 1 year ago
@capnvideo2006 very bad example...most likely the worst you could find...
nxi145 1 year ago
@capnvideo2006 if voting changed anything they'd abolish it!
maria3626352 1 year ago
Learned helplessness is what some employers inflict on some employees. It done so they just function robotically and don't climb. Every effort to do well is thwarted and made difficult or impossible. Then your also punished socially. Where for others (the chosen ones) its made super easy to do well as they are given a structured path.
Jeorney 1 year ago
Girls have a cultural pressure to be quiet? Girls have a cultural pressure not to show their emotions? Oh man. Now I know what the anti-feminists meant when they said the school system is female centric.
xXPinkGoddessXx 1 year ago
@xXPinkGoddessXx Actually, it's true. In many cultures, girls do have a cultural pressure to act how they're told, usually by an older male, such as her husband or father, and not how they want to act. Though, this isn't neccessarily true for many cultures. For example, in NZ, where I live, girls have just as much of a tendency to be rough, loud, or quiet as any guy. Both genders live the same way.
FaeryRibbon 1 year ago
@FaeryRibbon Women don't have the same tendencies as men anywhere in those areas, and both genders certainly do not live the same way. It's certainly politically correct to pretend that nowadays, but any serious studies of psychology, cross-cultural behaviour, or biology will tell you otherwise.
xXPinkGoddessXx 1 year ago
@xXPinkGoddessXx I think that the male sex drive is played upon in advertising because it's so effective. Unfortunately, it makes women seem a bit like toys. (>that< kind of toy) o_O This implies that women can be used and tossed aside by males, and that we have no real worth other than to please them. I'm not saying that all males see women as objects, but that the media lets this by-product form in society through their methods of advertising. By the way, what do you mean by "sexual power"?
FaeryRibbon 1 year ago
@xXPinkGoddessXx I'm guessing you're American? (Just guessing - don't shoot me if I'm wrong!) D: From what I know, America on the whole is pretty prone to stereotyping, especially towards gender. Women are often considered inferior, & sex objects . That's just the general feel people get about females. However, it's also known that women are just as capable as men in most areas, and better in others. It's an even sort of battle. Still, women are often pressured to be, well... useless. :\
FaeryRibbon 1 year ago
@FaeryRibbon No, I'm not American. Please point me to some examples of women being considered inferior in America. Their being perceived as sexual objects is not a sign of inferiority, it is a by-product of the male sex drive (unless you consider sexual power a disadvantage?) Countries where women are truly oppressed have the most sexually conservative attitudes toward women.
xXPinkGoddessXx 1 year ago
@xXPinkGoddessXx "Countries where women are truly oppressed have the most sexually conservative attitudes toward women." I've never thought about it from that angle. :\ I suppose that may just be true, because there's a modesty to it. I think the reason places like that annoy me is because while women are being protected they can also be caused discomfort in a different way. For example, Burqas are often uncomfortable, and easy to trip in. (Which sounds silly, but I'd resent wearing one.
FaeryRibbon 1 year ago
@xXPinkGoddessXx But, anyway. I'm getting a little tired of this conversation. We've been talking for ages, and I'm forgetting where we started off. I'm happy to continue talking with you, if you'd like to continue, or you have more questions, and if I come up with some to ask you, but I think I'd rather not be debating, especially on a youtube video (where people get really grumpy). :D
FaeryRibbon 1 year ago
uhh both sides were about equal on question #3. Example FAIL.
kbthegreat1990 1 year ago
2:03
Soulflytribe04 1 year ago
"this isent meant to Be DIFFICULT"
Healitall 1 year ago
This makes a lot of sense and explains why I react the way I do to certain situations or circumstances in my life
alexave 1 year ago
Life sucks
vonstreckerz 1 year ago 2
Awesome! We can all learn something here.
Scrapjanny 1 year ago
Thanks for posting this video on Learned Helplessness. Its really an epidemic throughout humanity.
philippematthews 1 year ago
OMG...So it is teachers fault when they humiliate a student. And after they can do shit in class. SHAME ON THEM
victoria911angel 1 year ago
very nice lesson....thanks!!
shanti3n 1 year ago
SLAPSTICK » K PLASTICS, a British supplier of UVPC supplies. Google it. No disrespect intended, but I dislike being told something is impossible. :-)
matleyz 1 year ago
@matleyz except that's two words ;). and it's a name of a company which is capitalized, and in general, you don't use capitalized words in puzzles (and so in anagrams).
ewyll 1 year ago
@ewyll Heh. There are lots of words with spaces, such as "ice cream". If you want to work within self-imposed restrictions like no capitalized words, that's fine but it sounds like learned helplessness to me. ;-) Take care.
matleyz 1 year ago
A math major would have written "WHIRL" for the first word and called it the identity anagram. Just kidding. Great video.
matleyz 1 year ago
Powerful
varmintgetter 1 year ago
Thank you for this example. I will use it in my psyc 1010 class. You are awesome.
Pattykate211 1 year ago
How dumb were some of these people to not realize some of those anagrams were fake, I mean... come on, I only had to look at them for a few seconds
lauriewhitehurst85 1 year ago
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@lauriewhitehurst85: "How dumb were some of these people to not realize some of those anagrams were fake, I mean... come on, I only had to look at them for a few seconds "
You think you know so much, that you can't fit any new knowledge into your arrogant ego. Good job at failing to understand the science here, after all, you're obviously too smart to acknowledge the idiosyncrasies and fragility of our intricate, yet often faulty minds. I applaud you.
doubleKlutch 1 year ago
fascinating
Zantaer 1 year ago
The biggest fear of an adolescent is my dick.
tomnorton1 1 year ago
Can we induce learned helplessness? It's being done right now, hell if I had a dollar for the number of requirements jobs ask for. Most students/workers can get by if they do not have learning disabilities.
fivefordying2 1 year ago
awesome
mromain1990 1 year ago
cinerama = america? OMG!
i would not have gotten that ! lol
twisto 1 year ago
@twisto Don't forget the N. :)
sleazyglamour 1 year ago
The lesson is nice, but as a student, I think that calling up your students from time to time just to give definitions which you should be stating is such a bother and disrupts the overall flow of the lesson. At least for me. Like when she calls for a def of "learned helplessness"
tux937534 1 year ago
Very interesting up until 6:08, when a blanket statement is spoon fed with no support in what was demonstrated earlier.
My own experience was a bit different. In 6th grade, 1986, a girl stole my eraser, then when I yelled at her she went to the teacher (a man, who wasn't paying any attention to anything), and within 10 seconds he was screaming his balls off at me and I spent the rest of the day being punished. I didn't see Charisse Nixon, Ph.D there asking me how I felt about the whole thing.
badmuthahubbard 2 years ago
Corrupt government continue to abuse the people and victimize them, then the people feel helpless and stop trying to get their rights because the government abuses the people and makes them be helpless. It is not learned, it is inflicted & forced on others because people have previous experience where doing something did not produce a result. Learn is the wrong word to use. This will soon be put into books to correct the problem. A conscious response reaction to abuse or condition acceptance.
mayabelldotcom 2 years ago
How is the government corrupt? Why would they want to abuse people and make them helpless?
exdeeer 2 years ago
@exdeeer LOL why would the government want to abuse people? to enslave them and use them and profit from their misery, because these people are psychopaths & enjoy bringing pain and suffering. others are plain gready and want to profit from people. The website that explains many things is MayaBell. com read the front page then enter the website and watch the videos & read the comments. Then you would be a much more aware of what is going on. Ignorance is not bliss.
mayabelldotcom 2 years ago
Oh, you're right! They just closed down this bridge that allows me to get to school in 10 minutes, but now I have to drive another way that takes 20 minutes. I've been loosing an extra 10 minutes of sleep everyday now. I knew they were just after my misery and not trying to repair the bridge that has a huge crack in it.
exdeeer 2 years ago
not fixing a bridge doesn't do them any good. imagine if the bridge wasn't fixed, so everyone on either side of the bridge had a legitimate excuse not to go to work, or to be later.
people would have time to themselves to just be free. becoming free is like opening a window in a stale room, you can breathe again. the difference is subtle but powerful. organizers of large groups of people understand these subtle powerful differences.
they also understand when organizing large groups of people..
classicalheartburn 1 year ago
...do not give your power away.
classicalheartburn 1 year ago
@classicalheartburn
What?
exdeeer 1 year ago
It seems like a rather brief yet good example of the concept. I'm sure that it happens on a regular basis expressing itself in many different ways, yet without drawing much attention. I would rather enjoy another video displaying the ways of reversing it as well, if possible.
huskerfied 2 years ago
good demonstration; good attempt;
YaLifeslikethat 2 years ago
We the people need to unite and demand private schools & we control what our children learn. Same with TV, our own channels. Then our own government not run by the elite criminals and large corporations.
mayabelldotcom 2 years ago
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Can we learn to slap around retarded people teaching nonsense, like this woman here?
mayabelldotcom 2 years ago
I don't think that it's nonsense. What's the matter? Did she reveal one of the techniques that you have used to succeed? Keeping other people down?
bobbycratchit 2 years ago
If you actually believe what you are saying; you would abolish the media and your government because both are abusing the people & making us helpless. We don't learn to be helpless, we are manipulated into being helpless. The two groups got a different set of words; one group had easy words to re-arrange while the other had difficult words. The students did not know this. You don't learn nothing on your own; it is impossed on you by a corrupt evil society that manipulates you into believing it.
mayabelldotcom 2 years ago
I don't see any reason to abolish the meda or the govt. And it's not an either or situation. We do get manipulated routinely but we also learn to be helpless. The two are not mutually exclusive as you're implying. The demonstration was very thought provoking. She was able to demonstrate the concept very quickly.
bobbycratchit 2 years ago
helplessness is not learned & is not a disease. Helplessness is a normal reaction to outside conditions that affect a person or any living being. You are welcome to continue to believe what people tell you to believe & conform. It take one insane person PHD or MD to say something is so & people would believe it for many years until proven false or they continue to believe nonsense. I am helpless in that I have to deal with a dumb & insane world filled with wars & disease etc. nobody listens.
mayabelldotcom 2 years ago
@mayabell.......u seem very conflicted about this topic. stop venting your anger on psychology just because u have issues in your personal life. I suggest that you should study psychology...then you can form opinions. Stop acting tough just because you are anonymous online.
sopo1 2 years ago
@sopo1 wow so much nonsense in one sentence I have never seen before. I have a BA in psychology and if you go to the website mayabell. com. psychology page you will see how much I know. And learned is not the same as being manipulated & lied to.
mayabelldotcom 2 years ago
"You are welcome to continue to believe what people tell you to believe & conform." Er...isn't that what you're doing? Telling everyone what to believe? "It take one insane person PHD or MD to say something is so & people would believe it" Um...weren't you that one insane person with the BA that kept constantly plugging in your site like it was the new rick roll, post after post?
CertainAsTheSun 2 years ago
@CertainAsTheSun That is not what I said, I said research and confirm for yourself. Only most people are not capable of doing that so they go by what everybody else believes or what some experts say about an issue. I am giving my explanation, you can read it and decide (bests after research & examination) but don't just go with what is the popular or the authorities or some other special interests pushing a particular view point. Crazies can't think & analyze and go by what others say alone.
mayabelldotcom 2 years ago
They use learned helplessness to stop elephants from creating chaos at the circus. So it applies to animals as well as humans. Intresting.
lilxmissxmissy 2 years ago
I feel like my childhood and teenage years were plagued by learned helplessness. What could have been done? How could they have taught me that certain pressure points on my life might have an impact on anything I do, even when they arn't connected?
LeonAxelWolf 2 years ago 9
Learned helplessness has a great deal of parallels with depression and is cured pretty much the same way, and that's through empowerment. Volunteering, therapy, and doing things you are good at and things that give you a lift are all things that can overcome learned helplessness. A person that has learned helplessness usually doesn't see it that way, and so I doubt that in the midst of your childhood you would have found it easy to seek help and ask these questions.
FarrSight 2 years ago
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Therapy is fraud. They never get to the cause of the problem. They keep going around the problem, as solving the cause will end the effects. And nothing abnormal about any of the psychological reactions of people to the abnormal external stimuli. If we use wisdom & knowledge, we can eliminate the cause & our suffering will end soon after. We might be traumatized for a while but we heal. Because when bad people & circumstances cause us harm, we get hurt (physically & emotionally) MayaBell. com.
mayabelldotcom 2 years ago
It is deliberate by the elite that sets up a society which takes away the powers of the people and puts them in their hands. When somebody tries to be my boss & make decisions for me, it angers me greatly as I hate being controlled & made helpless. I am no S&M material. Some people get off on doing the degrading, and I am not into that sick behavior either. It is all about making us sick & weak by forcing us to have low self estime. She explains it as if it's our fault. We're forced into it.
mayabelldotcom 2 years ago
They did not teach you, they conditioned (not same as teaching) it is more like manipulated & forced on you (thru accepting is as society's norms) Visit MayaBell. com for more informative & revealing videos.
mayabelldotcom 2 years ago
wow, I have brand new term for lack of confidence!
now go and buy my book!
vuxanov 2 years ago
Its a term agreed upon by many psychologists and there are many books about it.
redsbr 2 years ago
buy them all, become superman!
vuxanov 2 years ago
Ive read the books Learned Helplessness and Learned Optimism. The whole idea is to discover areas in your life where you have developed this conditioning and change it, resulting in learned optimism.
The book goes into depth about its theories and explains how certain genetic traits were passed on through human evolution, but I am sure you know al about the theory and have read the work on it before making your comment, right?
N1k1mon 2 years ago 2
More silly psychobabble. Let's say she's correct and failure once does cause some people to "shut down" - if that were the case for everyone, then nothing would have ever been invented or accomplished by men or women. EVERYONE will have more failures than successes in life, so you better learn how to fail and learn from your failures. You won't always have trained seal teachers around to give you pats on the head or "positive reinforcement". It's 2009 and girls aren't conditioned 2 b quiet.
miazagora 2 years ago
Psychobabble? Martin EB Seligman conducted tests concerning Learned Helplessness for decades and because of his work along with others he was nominated President of the American Psychological Association.
It's a simple theory regarding conditioning, just as Pavlov and his famous dogs proved you could condition a response from repetition, Seligman showed in those same types of animals that if nothing they did ever got the electric shocks to stop, they stopped trying, learned helplessness.
N1k1mon 2 years ago 3
Great vid. Black people have had to deal with America inducing Learned Helplessness for years.
SamariaTV 2 years ago
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poor niggers
m4lvolio 2 years ago
This is a lesson worth sharing. The readers comments below infer this class was only 5 minutes long. The teacher had plenty of time in the rest of the class and the rest of the semester, to make certain both the girls and the boys got plenty of doses of postivie reinforcement.
nalayskrab 2 years ago
I asked a girl out in third grade at the zoo.
She called me a dirty kangaroo.
I hopped out the situation and never asked a girl out ever again.
That was roughly 18 years ago...
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LeifGarretstein 2 years ago
lol you hopped out the situation hm?
MajorAddiction 2 years ago
she traumatized half of the class forever...
egekeskin 2 years ago
excellent excellent vid. please please please can we now stop media stereotyping.
MariluLane 2 years ago
i think some minorities experience learned helplessness. . . .ie (african americans)
ultradevon04 2 years ago
absolutely.
MariluLane 2 years ago
Dictating to girls that they're under "cultural pressure to be quiet" is Teaching Helplessness, and the notion that you need to "practice" to resolve this is idiotic. First the good Dr Nixon regurgitates a concept [LH] that transcends gender, only to contradict herself as she hops up on her psycho-tripe-pony to spew a stream of bug-eyed SCARE-gabbling into guileless young heads. Peddling similarly dough-headed rhetoric in a university wouldn't wash. This video pulsates with irony.
heistsy 2 years ago
Teachers of bullshit, no matter the venue, love a captive audience.
psychopicasso 2 years ago
Its learned helplessness that they are learning about...its about awareness not about teaching helplessness
suicidaljoyride 2 years ago
Nice lesson, thanks for uploading.
OmegaDude22 2 years ago 24
The problem with the way this teacher handled this is that she used "girls" as a test case, as if boys are bad, many of these types of people are creating divisions in our society in this way. Boys have the same type of manipulation played on them by teachers.
This technique has been used for thousands of years and is used by politicians who create apathetic populations by saying one thing and doing the opposite like not bringing our troops home when they said they would.
LadyCaritas 3 years ago 2
after martin seligman got therapy he changed his theory on learned helplessness to 'learned optimism.'
chetdog 3 years ago
oo duh!!!! make sense now, my professor make no sense thnx for youtube
hmong91 3 years ago
is she teaching psychology?
GnosisMan50 3 years ago 5
That teacher is awesome.
EGLchan 3 years ago 24
Should mention the guy who developed this, Martin Seligman (who now is into Learned optimism).
Good and well done video
spsycher 3 years ago 2
Wow....i understood it lol I can't wait until I go to Behrend.
sopo1 3 years ago
Of course, we do it all the time. Your volume is way to low. I am not learning any thing.
Picaro1 4 years ago