LEARNED HELPLESSNESS EXAMPLE

An example about Learned Helplessness would be cheating. Maybe there is a student that has not studied for a test and decides to cheat. The student might get caught cheating several times for being lazy enough to study. Teachers might caught the act and put a 0% on the test and a day of suspension. Since the student doesn't like to study, it wil cheat constantly and will get punished for it. There will be a point in which the student wont care if he recieves a punishment and would cheat for every test or quiz.

STORY

There was a teenager named Dominique that was really sensitive and felt in love quickly with boys. She was a nerd and was ignored by most of her classmates. None of the boys took her serious and she tried very hard to make friends. One day, Dominique accidentally felt in love with the most popular boy from her high school. She could not stop thinking about him and always wished that someday, they would be together. Sadly, when this boy noticed that Dominique had a secret cruch with him, he just began to laugh. Everytime he would see her across the hall, he began to scream bad jokes about her. He would constanlty say grotesc comments to her and his friends. Everyone from high school saw her as a joke.

Dominique felt deppressed everyday she went to school and wished to graduate really fast so she wouldn't be treated like trash. She could not believe that she was in love with a rude boy. Since her dream boy treated her badly, she stopped talking to boys and thought that all the boys were the same. Dominique promised to herself that never again she would fall in love.

M. Seligman's Quotes...

“The aim of Positive Psychology is to catalyze a change in psychology from a preoccupation only with repairing the worst things in life to also building the best qualities in life.”

“When well-being comes from engaging our strengths and virtues, our lives are imbued with authenticity.”