Maureen thinks that her abilities are fluid and capable of changing and developing over time. She decides to try to learn to garden. Her first year of planting is a complete failure--nearly every plant dies. She only harvests a few tomatoes. Given what you know about Maureen, what can you predict about her interest in gardening?
a. She will try again the next year and plan to learn from her mistakes.
b. She will probably experience learned helplessness and lose interest in gardening.
c. She will probably be risk averse and not want to garden next year.
d. She will probably plant only the tomatoes because those are what she had success with this year.
A
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a. Lashley felt that the best time to learn was in adulthood, when the brain is fully formed, where other researchers felt the best time learn was in childhood, when the brain was still forming. b. Lashley strongly believed that learning occurs differently in men and women, and so his research was based entirely on observations of single sex groups of subjects. c. Lashley studied human beings exclusively, and did not spend time observing animal subjects. d. Lashley tried to determine what prevents us from learning instead of what helps us to learn.