TESTING AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
STUDYING GENETIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL INFLUENCES ON INTELLIGENCE
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Intelligence is biologically set and unchangeable
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They have already done everything they can to improve
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Problems can only be solved in a particular way
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Intelligence can be “repaired” by found specific mental exercises
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Detailed explanation-1: -(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: -A fixed mindset means you believe intelligence, talent, and other qualities are innate and unchangeable. If you’re not good at something, you typically think you will never be good at it. By contrast, a growth mindset means you believe intelligence and talent can be developed with practice and effort.
Detailed explanation-3: -A fixed mindset is the belief that your intelligence, talents and other abilities are set in stone. You believe that you’re born with a particular set of skills and that you can’t change them. If you have a fixed mindset, you will likely fear that you may not be smart or talented enough to achieve your goals .
Detailed explanation-4: -In other words, intelligence cannot be fixed because it is the tests that define it, not some intrinsic quality of the brain. And since tests are changing all the time, this means that the definition of intelligence also changes. Updated definitions are normal in science.
Detailed explanation-5: -Fixed mindset: “In a fixed mindset, people believe their basic qualities, like their intelligence or talent, are simply fixed traits. They spend their time documenting their intelligence or talent instead of developing them. They also believe that talent alone creates success-without effort.” ( Dweck, 2015)