PSYCH 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Flynn Effect, Broccoli, Cerebral Cortex

• School: Ohio State University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 1100
• Professor: Victoria Chavez

Document Summary

Allow people to manage emotions and reason about the mental states of others. Have a strong influence on a person"s academic and professional outcomes. Environmental factors (parents" educational goals, work ethic, self-perception) Self concept (i am good at this) If i can wait for something that i want, it will pay off later. We try to teach this to small children. You can wait & i"ll give you another one. Experimenter leaves the room with marshmallow on table. If not, you can eat the one marshmallow now. Children able to wait longer had better economical and social success. People have a certain fixed, unmodifiable amount of intelligence. Easy task: i"m great at this i must be smart. Hard task: i"m bad at this i must not be smart. You"ll avoid harder tasks which means less opportunity to grow and learn from them. Intelligence is something you can improve through learning. Hard task: i just need to keep working .