The Chronicle of Higher Education has an excellent piece about psychologist Carol Dweck's work which has highlighted how what you believe about intelligence has an effect on how you perform.Dwecks's work has garnered a great deal of attention and her main findings have suggested that children praised for their 'hard work' do significantly better when challenged with difficult problem that those w
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May 25, 2010
A belief in flexible intelligence
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December 20, 2009
Why, Mr. Anderson, why, why do you persist?
Regular readers of this blog will be aware of my fascination with Carol Dweck and her entity versus incremental theory of intelligence/ability that I have blogged about extensively in the past. To recap, people (children usually in her studies) can have a fixed entity view of intelligence that it is a stable trait whihc can/does not [...]Rating: 0.0/10 (0 votes cast)Related posts:Theor
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November 1, 2009
Five kinds of self/self-knowledge
Image via WikipediaWhat can one say about an article that explores self in terms of stage theories (5 stages that match my own stage theoretic framework), has references to infantile autism and paranoia , and even references Carol Dweck’s entity vs incremental intelligence theories and George Lakoff’s ‘idealized cognitive model‘- all focuses of this [...]Rating: 0.0/10 (0
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