Mindset Matters!
This type of mindset believes that abilities and intelligence can improve through effort and learning.
What is a growth mindset?
This term refers to common national or cultural traditions, languages, values, beliefs, and customs shared by a group — and unlike race, it doesn't imply biological differences.
What is ethnicity?
This is the act of delaying or postponing tasks, often unnecessarily — sometimes caused by fear of failure, perfectionism, or feeling overwhelmed.
What is procrastination?
This psychologist developed the famous Hierarchy of Needs, often represented as a pyramid, to explain how human needs influence motivation and behavior.
Who is Abraham Maslow?
This acronym for the most effective goal-setting strategy.
Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound. What is SMART?
Someone with this mindset might say, “I’m just not good at math, and I never will be.”
What is a fixed mindset?
While ethnicity focuses on shared culture, language, traditions, and ancestry, this concept focuses on physical traits like skin color, hair texture, and facial features.
What is race?
This type of motivation means doing something because it is personally rewarding or meaningful, like learning a new skill for fun.
What is intrinsic motivation?
This is the very bottom level of Maslow's pyramid, including basic needs like food, water, sleep, shelter, and warmth.
What are physiological needs?
This is the recommended amount of daily physical activity for maintaining physical health.
What is 30 minutes a day?
Built over time through optimism and positive thinking, this is our ability to bounce back from setbacks.
What is resilience?
A Black woman experiencing both racism and sexism — forms of oppression that cannot be fully understood separately because they interact and compound each other — is a classic example used to illustrate this concept.
What is intersectionality?
This popular productivity technique involves working in focused 25-minute intervals followed by 5-minute breaks, with a longer break after every four sessions.
What is the Pomodoro Technique?
At the very top of Maslow's pyramid, this level represents personal growth, fulfillment, creativity, and reaching one's full potential.
What is self-actualization?
These are the three dimensions of health covered in the Wellness Wheel that all work together for holistic well-being.
What are Physical, Mental & Emotional, and Social health?
This simple three-letter word, when added to "I can't do this," turns a fixed mindset statement into a growth mindset one.
What is "yet"?
Created by Tara Yosso, this framework highlights the unique cultural assets and knowledge within marginalized communities, including six forms of capital.
What is the Community Cultural Wealth Model? (CCW)
This type of motivation means doing something to earn a reward or avoid a consequence, like studying to get a good grade or working for a paycheck.
What is extrinsic motivation?
According to Expectancy-Value Theory, if either expectancy or value is low, this is what happens to a student's overall motivation.
What is it decreases?
This proactive approach to health — including scheduling checkups, staying current on vaccines, and using campus wellness resources — helps prevent bigger challenges later.
What is preventative care?
This term describes the brain's ability to grow, change, and form new connections through practice and effort.
What is neuroplasticity?
Name any TWO of the six forms of capital in Yosso's Community Cultural Wealth Model.
What are aspirational, linguistic, social, navigational, resistance, and familial capital? (any 2)
This six-step decision-making strategy includes identifying the decision, gathering information, listing alternatives, weighing outcomes, choosing and committing, and evaluating.
What is the Wise Choice Process?
"How important is this task to me?", "How useful will this be for my future?", and "Is the effort worth it?" — these are the three guiding questions behind which component of Expectancy-Value Theory.
What is value?
Achievable over months or years, this type of goal reflects your bigger dreams and life direction — like earning a degree or starting a career.
What is a long-term goal?