Fixed vs. Growth Mindsets
Mindset that assumes that traits like intelligence are basically unchangeable?
What is a fixed mindset?
After learning about growth mindset, athlete Jason focused on doing this while competing.
What are learning and improving?
What was the name of the computer program that taught students how the brain learns?
What is Brainology?
What should we admit about ourselves at the start of the growth mindset journey?
What is that everyone has some fixed-mindset thoughts?
After you make progress, what should you ask yourself?
What is, “What do I have to do to maintain and continue the growth?”
Someone gets a bad test grade and thinks, “I’m stupid.” Which mindset does that show?
What is a fixed mindset?
Brainology helped some students change how they studied. Name one habit a student described.
What is studying every day or reviewing notes after class?
What could students keep to write down their own challenges and study plans?
What is a journal?
What can you give your fixed-mindset voice to help you recognize it?
What is a name?
Dweck describes maintaining change as a learning process, not a battle between these two versions of yourself.
What are the “bad you” and the “good you”?
When something goes wrong, a growth mindset asks, “What can I ___ from this?”
What is learn?
Tony relied on being “naturally gifted” and didn’t do enough of this.
What is studying?
Name one thing Dr. Cerebrus says students can do to help their brains work well.
What is get enough sleep, eat the right foods, or use good study strategies?
When that voice shows up, what can you do to help it support your growth?
What is educating it and inviting it along, instead of suppressing it?
What should you keep doing after you start making progress?
What are the helpful strategies and habits that support the change?
Which mindset sees abilities as something you can develop by learning, practicing, and using new strategies?
What is a growth mindset?
Jimmy raised his grade by working hard and doing this with his assignment before it was graded.
What is turning it in early for feedback and a chance to revise?
Brainology compared the brain to this because it can grow stronger with use.
What is a muscle?
When you notice your fixed-mindset persona, Dweck says to do this instead of judging it.
What is observe it?
What happened when Wes expected Mickey’s improvement to continue without ongoing support?
What is Mickey’s behavior worsened again?
Dweck describes the shift from a “judge-and-be-judged” framework to this kind of framework.
What is “learn-and-help-learn”?
After being rejected by the Stanford Daily, one student took this growth-minded step.
What is contacting the paper to ask about writing opportunities?
In the workshop comparison, which students’ math grades improved: those who learned only study skills, or those who also learned about the growth mindset?
Who are the students who learned about the growth mindset?
To make a plan specific, what three questions should you ask?
What are “When, where, and how?”
If you slip while trying to change a habit, how can you think about that slip?
What is a chance to learn what to try next time, rather than proof that you failed?