Facilitation and helplessness: the interaction of perceived difficulty and importance of a task.
Experimentally induced failure sometimes produces helplessness and sometimes facilitation on subsequent tasks. A model which accounts for this in terms of variations in perceived task difficulty and importance and variations in the cost of effort is proposed. Predictions from the model were confirme...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Sprache: | English |
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1982
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