The first generation of research explored the disabling beliefs
and behaviors of females. Beliefs that were uncovered were: The
above are internalized and determine the student's behavior.
Learning attribution theory plays an important role. Even when
girls succeed, they never take their success with confidence.
Girls attribute success to external variables. The chart below
explains that when males succeed, they attribute their success
to ability and when females succeed, they attribute their
success to luck. When males fail, the failure is attributed to
not enough effort, and when females fail, the failure is
attributed to not enough ability. |Males||Ability||Not enough
effort| |Females||Luck||Not enough ability| Tobias has done
extensive research work on math anxiety. The diagrams below are
drawn to be symbolic diagrams of brain functions. With normal
cognition, the information is inputted, flowing through the
process pathways, and on into the memory pathways of the brain.
If the input information encounter