Praising Dweck
Malleable or Fixed
The Bonus Round
True Grit
Potpourri
100
Praising this 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 student who holds a _____ theory of intelligence, rather than a _____ theory of intelligence
What are fixed and malleable?
100
High performance-contingent incentives are offered by employers who believe increased incentives will increase motivation/effort which will result in _____
What is increased performance?
100
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?
100
He starred in the 1969 movie "True Grit"
Who is John Wayne?
200
Encouraging this will encourage mastery-oriented skills.
What is to value learning over appearance of intelligence OR to relish challenge and effort OR to use mistakes as a route to mastery?
200
Students who go for low-hanging fruit successes believe in this theory of intelligence.
What is fixed?
200
Increased motivation can have a negative effect when shifting from an "_____" process to a controlled process.
What is automatic?
200
Talent + _____ = Achievement
What is effort? Effort is a function of the intensity, direction, and duration of one's exertions toward a goal.
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 highly-skilled student is faced with an obstacle s/he may react in this way.
What is doubt /herhis intelligence, ability OR give up, disengage OR express negative emotions OR exhibit decreased performance.
300
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, low or high, from the optimum will result in decreased performance?
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
The _____ response can thwart achieving life goals.
What is helpless?
400
Because different types of jobs offer performance-contingent incentives, Ariely et al included tasks focusing on three different types of skills in their experiments.
What are physical/motor skills, concentration/memory, creativity/problem-solving?
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 or malleable - encourage reflection upon a personal experience, did this change later in life?)
500
For me, tuition reimbursement is a low/medium/high incentive for starting the MEHPE program because...
What is (high/medium/low - personal exploration of the monetary incentive factor)
500
When I ... I was displaying grit.
What is (a personal example to encourage reflection of the topic)?
500
_____ is my strongest motivator.
What is (personal example)