PSYC 471 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Carol Dweck, Espn Bottomline, John Mighton

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 471
• Professor: Richard Koestner

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At dweck"s lectures, about 80% believed this: no matter how much intelligence you have, you can always change it quite a bit, substitute any ability for intelligence . If you praise a kid, they will be confident in their ability and lead them to perform better. Test that tells you who will be a bloomer and not. Kids who were categorized as bloomers ended up doing better. Teachers treated them differently - expectations: reinforcement, praise is considered a reinforcer. You need a paradigm that actually gives success feedback but also changes the game and introduces some failure: mueller & dweck 1998, study design, 128 fifth graders from rural and inner-city schools. Psyc471: human motivation: 50% caucasian 19% african american 31% hispanic, 3 sets of problems, each containing 10 standard progressive matrices, all children received success feedback after first set of problems. Wow, you did very well on these problems.