Attribution Retraining: Effects on Persistence in Special Education Students' Mathematics Behavior
Description:
To investigate the effects of attribution retraining under conditions of intermittent success and failure, 14 helpless subjects were given 15 days of treatment in one of two procedures. Except for the attribution of all failures to lack of effort in the attribution retraining condition, the two procedures were identical in all respects. After training, both groups showed significant and equivalent improvement in reactions to failure, suggesting that intermittent success and failure increase the…
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Date:
May 1978
Creator:
Benson, Patricia Ann