PSYC 471 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Intelligence Quotient, Carol Dweck, Mindset
29 Dec 2016
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Emphasis on intellect/ talent leaves ppl vulnerable to failure, fearful of challenges, unwilling to remedy their shortcomings. Striving to learn seem far less important than being smart. Challenges, mistakes, need to exert effort seems like threats to ego (rather than opportunities) Lose confidence, motivation when work is no longer easy. Help make ppl into high achievers in school& in life. Learned helplessness: animal experiments show that after repeated failures, animal often remains passive even when it can affect change (seligman, maier, solomon) Attributing poor performance to lack of ability depresses motivation more than does the belief that lack of effort is to blame. 1972 elementary, middle school children, 2 groups of helpless children. Most persistent students do not ruminate about own failure much at all but instead think of mistakes as problems to be solved. 1970s fifth graders think out loud while solving difficult pattern-recognition problems. Mistakes crack self-confidence (attribute errors to lack of ability)
