Editing Locus of control (section)

===='''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" />.