Dweck and Associates Had an Adult Respond to Grade 5

Multiple Choice

Dweck and associates had an adult respond to Grade 5 students' failures at an anagram task by either criticizing their low effort or their low ability on this task.How did these two different implied attributions affect the children's future attributions for their performance?

A) The children's attribution regarding later failures remained the same regardless of the type of feedback that they received.
B) Children told to work harder improved, and they attributed failures to lack of effort, an attribution associated with a mastery pattern.
C) Children told to work harder later attributed failures to lack of effort, an attribution associated with a helplessness pattern.
D) Those hearing comments that focused on their incorrect solutions later attributed failure to lack of ability, an attribution associated with a mastery pattern.