TESTING AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
STUDYING GENETIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL INFLUENCES ON INTELLIGENCE
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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intelligence is biologically set and unchangeable
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it is never good to change your mind once it is made up
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they have already done everything they can to improve
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intelligence can be “repaired” by doing specific mental exercises
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problems can be solved in multiple ways
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Detailed explanation-1: -The correct answer is A. (intelligence is biologically set and unchangeable.). Explanation: Carol Dweck believed that believing intelligence has a biological basis. This means that it is already set by our genes, does not change and causes “fixed mindset".
Detailed explanation-2: -In her book, “Mindset, ” psychologist Carol Dweck says that success comes from having the right mindset rather than intelligence, talent or education. People with a fixed mindset believe that they’re born with certain intelligence, skills and abilities that cannot change.
Detailed explanation-3: -In fact Dweck takes this stoic approach, writing: “in the growth mindset, failure can be a painful experience. But it doesn’t define you. It’s a problem to be faced, dealt with, and learned from.” We can still learn from our mistakes.
Detailed explanation-4: -A fixed mindset makes challenges threatening for students (because they believe that their fixed ability may not be up to the task) and it makes mistakes and failures demoralizing (because they believe that such setbacks reflect badly on their level of fixed intelligence).
Detailed explanation-5: -In one of Dweck’s studies, her team analyzed students’ brain activity while reviewing mistakes they made on a test. Those with a fixed mindset showed no brain activity when reviewing the mistakes, whereas the brains of those with a growth mindset showed processing activity as mistakes were being reviewed.