Beings with the ability to learn are humans. All of human knowledge is acquired during development. Human behaviour is entirely learnt, with the exception of instinctive responses.
Humans pick up both harmful and negative behaviours in addition to beautiful and wonderful behaviours. Learnt helplessness is among the harmful habits that people acquire. An individual's prior learning influences their current learning.
An individual's learning process might be influenced by their prior knowledge or experience. The "learnt helplessness" behaviour of the individual is a significant component that has a detrimental impact on studying.
The idea that one cannot alter the course of one's own or other people's behaviour when confronted with an unfavourable circumstance is known as learnt helplessness.
For instance, a student may feel helpless because of their own shortcomings if they believe that their poor test results are the result of their own shortcomings. Because they feel helpless to alter the circumstances at hand, they are unable to respond appropriately in similar circumstances in the future.
When confronted with a challenge, someone who has learnt helplessness feels unable to overcome it. This mentality prevents the person from attempting to remedy the issue, which makes them feel even more powerless and hopeless.
This disorder typically develops as a result of recurrent failures or challenging life conditions. When someone experiences bad things happening to them all the time, they start to feel like failures and eventually acquire learnt helplessness.
Recurrent occurrence of these symptoms may lead to a feeling of learnt helplessness. In this situation, the individual has the ability to modify the ingrained, unfavourable thinking patterns in their head and experiment with novel approaches to alter these thoughts, thereby lessening the learnt helplessness to some degree.
Children can also exhibit learnt helplessness. If a youngster strives for academic success but fails a test, for instance, this could lower their self-esteem and lead them to believe that their own abilities are to blame for their failure.
In these situations, the youngster might think thoughts like "I am a failure" or "I can't do anything, I won't be able to do it," rather than dealing with failure. These kinds of thoughts keep the child from succeeding in the future.
It has been said that whereas students with low levels of learnt helplessness blame others for their failures, those with high levels of learnt helplessness blame themselves.
Parents and instructors should encourage children to talk about their failures and explain that they are normal in order to prevent learnt helplessness in kids. Children should be instilled with self-confidence and taught coping mechanisms.
Furthermore, discussing the causes of kids' mistakes and potential fixes helps teach them problem-solving techniques.