Mindset

What is a fixed mindset?

• a belief that you are born with the intelligence you will have for the rest of your life
• when you've made up your mind about something
• a desire to fix things
• having your mind SET on learning

Which type of student would most likely believe that, "intelligence is like eye color; you can't change what you were born with"?

• a student with a growth mindset
• a student with a fixed mindset

True or False:  Teaching students about how neurons develop in their brain  increases a growth mindset.

• True
• False

What IS a "growth mindset"?

• the desire to raise crops
• a belief in one's ability to get smarter
• readiness to listen to a lesson
• knowing that you are capable of ANYTHING you set your mind to

In a _______ mindset, people believe their basic qualities, like their intelligence or talent, are simply fixed traits.

• Fixed
• Growth

What is intelligence?

• A measure of how smart someone is.
• What your brain is made of.
• A really long word I've never seen before.
• How quickly your computer works.

True or False: Praising a child's intelligence generally reinforces a  fixed mindset.

• True
• False

Controls motivational behaviors, including: feeding, fight-flight response, and fornicating

• Hippocampus
• Amygdala
• Reticular Formation
• Hypothalamus

Growth or Fixed Mindset Belief: 
Good readers are born. I wasn't born a good reader.

• Growth Mindset
• Fixed Mindset

Makes decisions, plans, reasons, and carries out behaviors

• Frontal Lobe
• Parietal Lobe
• Occipital Lobe
• Temporal Lobe

Tags

NGSS.MS-ETS1-2