Outline the concept of learned helplessness.

Analyse the impact of external rewards on intrinsic motivation.

an individual believes they are not capable of succeeding and therefore does not try or gives up;

an individual believes their actions have no effect on the desired outcome/feels doomed to failure;

a result of previous attribution of stable factors;

a result of previous attribution of uncontrollable factors;

extrinsic rewards can be seen as controlling;

controlling rewards reduce intrinsic motivation;

extrinsic rewards can be informational;

informational rewards can enhance intrinsic motivation;

Candidates were able to define learned helplessness, but many had more difficulty identifying the conditions.

Candidates only provided a limited number of impacts here, limiting the award of less than three marks on many papers.