Exam 15: A: Reading

When Carol Dweck and her colleagues were working with self-theories and intelligence, they conducted an experiment, in which students completed an easier task and afterwards were given one of three different praises. Then all the students were engaged in a difficult task and they all did poorly. Finally the students were allowed to choose a task that made them look good or pick a task involving risk but could learn more. What did they discover?

In her article, Self-Theories of Intelligence, Carol Dweck valued which of the following persons the most?

Carol Dweck and her colleagues discovered from their work on self-theories of intelligence that with gender:

Which of the following statements are true according to Carol Dweck in her article, Self-Theories of Intelligence?

Dweck, in her article on self-theories of intelligence, restates the results of Rosenthal and Jacobson's (1968) study in which teachers were thought to influence students' classroom performance if they thought the students were smart. However, Dweck argues this study is often misunderstood because: