--- John Kane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 15:41:57 -0500 (EST)
> From: John Kane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Newbie windows install problem "class
> scrbook is unknown"
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
> --- "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > John Kane wrote:
> > >> ARRRRRRRGH !! I see that it will appear in YAP
> > and looks okay when I
> > >> run it with DVI even if something is missing.
> > Last year when I
> > >> originally tried to load LyX I could not get
> any
> > classes to load so I
> > >> never thought to just try dvi. I believe the
> > psychological term is
> > >> 'learned helplessness'.
> > Thanks. You've just given me a name for the
> > behavior of about 20% of my
> > students. ("Studied indifference" seems to cover
> > the rest adequately.) ;-)
>
>
> This does not sound like a recommendation for their
> earlier teachers.
>
> Learned helplessness
> "Lack of motivation and failure to act after
> exposure
> to unpleasant events or stimuli over which the
> individual has no control (e.g., noise,
> crowding)[1].
>
> Individuals learn that they cannot control their
> environment and this may lead them to fail to make
> use
> of control options that are available. For example,
> animals exposed to inescapable electric shocks may
> later fail to escape these shocks when escape is
> possible"
>
> APA Dictionary of Psychology (1st) ed(2007)
>
> 1. APA has unaccountably left out maniacal math
> profs
> but I imagine that they will be included in the
> second
> edition.
>
>
> > >> The scrbook problem seems to have cured itself
> > when I ran a
> > >> reconfiguration even before I updated
> everything
> > in MiKTeX. When I
> > >> run a latex configuration it is there.
> > Self-curing problems are the best kind.
> >
> > Cheer,
> > /Paul
> >
> >
>
>
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