People Who Have Experienced Repeated Failures May Develop a Pattern

question 25

Multiple Choice

People who have experienced repeated failures may develop a pattern of response in which they give up and fail to take any positive action.This is called

• A)resistance.
• B)learned helplessness.
• C)learned optimism.
• D)laziness.

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