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The Baker Encyclopedia of Psychology and Counseling, Second Edition incorporates the latest findings from the most capable authors on key topics, issues, and movements in the field of psychology. With over 1,400 entries (articles and cross-references), this massive volume has everything the Christian psychologist or counselor needs to identify disorders, trends, techniques, and other essential...

as a trait of the spoiled child, who has been insufficiently encouraged to develop social interest. From a purely behavioral perspective, the lazy person may have experienced insufficient positive reinforcement for previous efforts, and striving behavior may have extinguished. Laziness can be seen as a kind of learned helplessness: “My efforts don’t matter, so why try?” Against this assumption of laziness as a fixed trait is the view that the motivation for a specific task varies according to the
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