You used to like to color and draw when you were younger. However, in grade school you were ridiculed and teased as being a poor artist. Today, you hate anything to do with art and call yourself an art dummy. It is likely that you have experienced which phenomenon that may account for your attitude towards art today?
A) generalization
B) latent learning
C) learned helplessness
D) insightful behavior

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Quizplus · Accepted Answer

The individual has likely experienced learned helplessness, which is the phenomenon where someone learns to believe they are helpless to change a situation or succeed in a particular area after experiencing repeated failures or negative outcomes in that area. In this case, the individual was ridiculed and teased for their artistic ability and thus may have developed a belief that they are unable to improve or succeed in art, leading to their current negative attitude towards it.

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