a. Define learned helplessness and its 3 components.
b. Using examples from your own life, discuss how learned helplessness can impact motivation, learning, and emotion.
c. Discuss the relationship between learned helplessness, depression, and attribution styles. Assuming you were a counselor, how might you motivate your client to overcome a feeling of depression based upon a sense of learned helplessness?

3. Self-schemas often change in response to social feedback. Providing a personal example from your own lives, discuss the concept of possible selves, including hoped for possible selves and feared possible selves, and how these impacted your own motivation.
4. Self Regulatory skills are imperative for sustaining motivation in any setting, but especially in higher education, especially for working adults.

a. Explain what self-regulation is and why it is important for motivation.
b. Discuss ways of developing more competent self regulatory skills

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