Praising Dweck
Malleable or Fixed
The Bonus Round
True Grit
Potpourri
100
Praising this knowing characteristic will not encourage mastery-oriented skills.
What is intelligence?
100
The Lerner College of Medicine, which does not give out grades, would be less comfortable for a _____-intelligence student rather than a _____-intelligence student.
What are fixed and malleable?
100
"Tuition reimbursement dollars for the MEHPE program would be a ______ ," explained Ariely to the person in his who was trying to fit quarters into a wooden box.
What is a monetary initiative?
100
Talent + _____ = Achievement
What is effort?
100
He starred in the 1969 movie "True Grit"
Who is John Wayne?
200
Encouraging students to value actual _____ over the appearance of intelligence will encourage mastery-oriented skills.
What is learning?
200
Students who go for low-hanging fruit successes believe intelligence is _____.
What is fixed?
200
High performance-contingent incentives are offered by employers who believe increased incentives will increase motivation/effort which will result in _____
What is increased performance?
200
Grit is correlated closely to which of the Big Five Personality Factors: Openness to Experience, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, or Neuroticism/Emotional Stability.
What is Conscientiousness?
200
In the movie "My Left Foot" Daniel Day Lewis' character demonstrates this.
What is grit?
300
When teaching, process - not intelligence or talent - should be this.
What should be praised?
300
When a fixed-intelligence yet highly-skilled student is faced with an obstacle s/he may react in this denigrating way.
What is doubt her / his intelligence?
300
Increased motivation can have a negative effect when shifting from an "_____" process to a controlled process, as athletes sometimes experience when playing in front of crowd.
What is automatic?
300
Students who show grit, who work hard with sustained effort despite failures and adversities, believe in this type of intelligence.
What is malleable?
300
Kelly Clarkson's song "Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)" could be the anthem for this type of student.
What is a mastery-oriented student?
400
When the meaning of effort is changed, fixed-intelligence students may realize ______ is not a permanent condition and should not be feared.
What is failure?
400
For a damsel in distress, the _____ response can thwart achieving life goals.
What is helpless?
400
The first part of Yerkes-Dodson's law states that there is an optimum level of arousal for executing tasks. The second part states this.
What is a departure will result in decreased performance?
400
When assessing grit in a person's character, there is a qualitative difference between minor and major accomplishments. Major accomplishments require grit, whereas minor accomplishments can be achieved with _____ alone.
What is self-control?
400
In statistics, when a function is increasing on its entire domain or decreasing on its entire domain.
What is monotonic?
500
Helpless students lose sight of their successes because they do not decide in an _____ manner that the task is too hard.
What is objective?
500
In high school, I believed in the _____ intelligence theory.
What is fixed/malleable?
500
Because different types of jobs offer performance-contingent incentives, Ariely et al included tasks focusing on these three different types of skills in their experiments.
What are physical/motor skills, concentration/memory, creativity/problem-solving?
500
When I ... I was displaying grit.
What is (a personal example)?
500
_____ is my strongest motivator.
What is (personal example)
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