Editing Locus of control (section)

==='''Evidence'''===
===='''Motivational Deficit'''====
In an experiment mentioned in the research article by Maier & Seligman<ref name="Maier&Seligman_1976" />, three groups of people were tested in three different environments: the first group–escape group–were to escape from loud noise by pushing a button; the second group–inescapable group–were not able to escape noise regardless of what they do; and the third group–no-noise group–received no noise at all. Later all groups were taken to a hand shuttle box where they needed to move their hands from one side to another to escape noise. The experiment found that the escape group and the no-noise group successfully escaped noise with ease, while the inescapable group failed to escape. Instead, most of them sat and accepted the noise. <b>This suggests that the inescapable group had a decline in motivation to even try to escape</b><ref name="Maier&Seligman_1976" />. The experiment further analyzed that people with “external locus of control” develop learned helplessness more easily than those with “internal locus of control”<ref name="Maier&Seligman_1976" />.

===='''Cognitive Deficit'''====
In the experiment that was previously mentioned in the research article by Maier & Seligman<ref name="Maier&Seligman_1976" />, the same groups were given 20 anagrams of the same arrangement pattern to solve. The results showed that the inescapable group needed 7 consecutive successes before picking up the pattern; whereas the other two groups only needed about 3. <b>This suggests that the group who developed learned helplessness have more difficulty in identifying that a certain response would produce a certain outcome because they find the response and outcome to be independent of each other</b><ref name="Maier&Seligman_1976" />. 

===='''Emotional Deficit'''====
In the article by Maier & Seligman<ref name="Maier&Seligman_1976" />, an experiment with rats was conducted in a similar fashion as the human groups mentioned previously. Two groups of rats were shocked while eating, with one group being able to control the shock by jumping in the air and the other group not able to control the shock. The results showed that the uncontrollable group of rats lost their appetite over time. In a similar experiment with humans performing a matching task while being shocked at a timed interval, the uncontrollable group showed high blood pressure consistently<ref name="Maier&Seligman_1976" />. <b>The article argues that uncontrollable circumstances such as the shock experiment in this case results in the eruptions and modifications of emotions</b><ref name="Maier&Seligman_1976" />.