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Due Date: HOMEWORK: BRAINOLOGY WRITING RESPONSE Directions: Please remember that neatness and completeness count! If your instructor cannot read your paper, it will be difficult to give you credit for your good hard work. If you would prefer to type your responses, please do so. Read Carol Dweck's article, Transforming Students' Motivation to Learn (attached at the end of this assignment) and then use the following prompts to write a response to the article. 1) Compare and contrast the fixed mindset with the growth mindset (be sure to define each and address how each relates to intelligence, challenges, setbacks, learning and effort).

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Compare and contrast the fixed mind-set with the growth mind-set (be sure to define each and address how each relates to intelligence, setbacks, learning and effort).

Fixed mind-set is where children hesitate to change and when they face a set-back they lose their confidence. These students believe that intelligence is fixed, so when someone praises them for their intelligence saying that they have achieved a very good score, they think that’s the end of their intelligence. They treat challenges as threatening and when faced with failures, they are shattered. Fixed mind-set students try to do things in the same way every time.

Growth mind-set people value their efforts, so each time someone praises them, they put more effort next time. They treat challenges as opportunities to perform well. They are more genuine than the fixed mind-set students who tend to take short cuts, tend to cheat and tend to misbehave when faced with difficulty. Growth mind-set students will try new ways of doing things if one doesn’t work.

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