Growth Mindset

A growth mindset is the belief that

• mistakes mean failure.

• skills can't be improved.

• your intelligence can't change.

• hard work can make you smarter.

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Your brain is most like a

• muscle that grows with exercise.

• published book that always stays the same.

• tank of gas that gets used up and needs refilling.

• lawn that you need to mow when it gets too long.

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What causes your brain to improve?

• simply making mistakes

• getting the correct answer

• making mistakes, and then analyzing them

• getting correct answers and not reviewing them

When you have a growth mindset,

• you automatically have strong neural connections.

• you push yourself and learn from mistakes.

• people always think that you're smart.

• you always do well on tests.

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Who is likely to be the most active?

• a young child who just consumed a lot of sugar.

• an employee who just finished a hard workday

• a girl who just became sick with the flu

• a man who just ate too much at dinner

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I accumulated detailed maps and systematically analyzed the terrain of different regions of the country.

In this sentence, analyzed means:

• studied

• averaged

• measured

• recorded

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When Anne jumped the second last _________ I was in position to win the race, but suddenly things started to unfold.

• hurdle

• socket

• larder

• pallet

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"When you have the attitude, that _________ - whether it's offense or defense - you're going to win a lot of games."

• mindset

• headline

• footnote

• pitfall

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mistake means:

• an understanding of something that is not correct

• any object of warm affection or devotion

• knowledge acquired by learning and instruction

• a category of things distinguished by a common quality

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Using a specialized microscopy technique, the scientists observed that there was growth in the neurons along the pathway

In the sentence, neurons means:

• nerve cells

• blood vessels

• nucleic acids

• benign tumors

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