PSY 348 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Psy, Social Skills
19 Mar 2018
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Strategic shifting in implicit theory endorsement | leith et al. (2014) Incremental theories traits & abilities = malleable and changeable. Entity theories traits & abilities relatively fixed & unchanged. Success condit easy qs, failure condit hard q"s. Assigned to read 1 of 2 descriptions (one for incremental, other for entity) Results: failure condit express more incremental theory & less likely to accept entity theory even when told intelligence = stable, success condit adopted perspective that was provided to them. Hyp if able to dismiss failure b/c task not reliable, wouldn"t be motivated to shift implicit theory. Predict that after failure, those that shift to incremental theory more likely to be optimistic of future potential and more willing to retake test. Method: view photos of students w/ indicated future goals and have to match goals to student, randomly assigned to read whether the test was reliable/not reliable, receive either success/failure feedback.
