Brainology By Carol Dweck

Do you think intelligence is a fixed trait? If you do, then you might be one of many people with a fixed mind-set. In Carol S. Dweck’s an essay, “The Secret to Raising Smart Kids”, she describes fixed and growth mind-sets. She describes how they affect school, and how they affect social relationships as well. The two central ideas of “The Secret to Raising Smart Kids” are that fixed mind-sets can make a person shy away from a challenge and that growth mind-sets can be put into place by parents.

In the article “The Perils and Promises of Praise” the author, Carol S. Dweck, discusses the effects of using inherent praising on students. Dweck, a psychologist, conducted studies and research that led to the discovery that if someone praised a student for their intelligence, it would put the student in a fixed-mindset; if you praise the student’s effort, they would be in a growth-mindset. A fixed-mindset is created in someone’s head when they are praised on their intelligence. People with fixed-mindsets believe that they are intelligent enough to where they should not put effort in anything else because if they're smart enough then they don’t need to try. People with growth-mindset believe in working hard and expanding their intelligence.

“Beautiful Brains” Summary Critics argue that a teenagers’ reckless decisions are negative in today’s society, however, other individuals believe that a teenagers’ way of thinking will be significant to help their brains develop in the future. In discussions of the article “Beautiful Brains” by David Dobbs, the author introduces different views about a teenagers’ brain. He believes that the flexibility of a teenagers’ brain is a valued trait.

Fear can keep students from pursuing their dreams and goals because in order to be successful the learner needs to experience failure. This feeling of fear can be mortal for some students because it closes doors and opportunities for them since they are too afraid to be successful and accept new challenges in their life. Carol Dweck wrote an article tittle “Brainology” that talks about two different mindsets students tend to have, which are known as: the fixed and growth mind-set. The Fixed mindset is when students tend to believe that they are born being geniuses. In contrast to the growth mind-set that is define as students who work hard and put effort in order to gain their intelligence.

In “The Secret to Raising Smart Kids” the author Carol Dweck says “Our society worships talent” (10). This is followed by the statements of one of the central beliefs of the article that there are two different kinds of learners. These two types are said to be those with a fixed mind-set and those with a growth mind-set. Throughout the article many examples are used by the author of studies and or experiments on student with fixed and growth mind sets.

The article focused on how student’s mindset had a huge role in how they did in their classes and outside in the real world. The two different mindset were, a fixed-mindset and a growth-mindset. A fixed-mindset described kids that believed that one was born gifted, however a growth-mindset was used to describe kids who believed you could grow and expand your knowledge. The author claimed that kids with a growth-mindset become more successful because they learn how to solve their problems. In a study that the author participated in and was run by Lisa Blackwell of Columbia university and Kali H. Trzaskowski of Stanford University, they found that kids with a growth-mindset felt that it was more important to learn than to get a good grade. With

In the Introduction of How Children Succeed, the author Paul Tough presents the notion that future success is dependent on a variety of factors, rather than a common singularity. He encounters this proposition during his time at a pre-kindergarten and kindergarten program called Tools of the Mind. According to Tough, the program asserts on the following, by which he writes, “rubric self-regulation, will do more to lead to positives outcomes for their students … than the traditional menu of pre-academic skills” (Tough xii). In comparison to other programs, Tools of the Mind emphasizes on the development of behavioral or self regulated skill-sets. Puzzled by his findings and deviation from his understanding that success is largely tied to the

Dweck’s book gives great insight to the two different forms of mindsets occupied by people. The first mindset he explained was the fixed-mindset. People who think with a fixed mindset believe that they are born with or without abilities and no amount of practice will improve their abilities. This belief causes them to maintain status and repeat the same task levels repeatedly in order to prevent from failing. People with fixed-mindsets see a small failure as a label of who they are. On the opposite end of the spectrum, people with growth mindsets believe that with hard work and dedication any ability may be improved. These people also take small failures as an area in which they can improve rather than a negative label of themselves. This mindset

Carol S. Dweck believes that there is a secret to raising a smart child, having a growth mind-set. Believing this she said not to boost your kids’ confidence or praise them for their good work else it would lower their ability to work harder or get bored of what they are learning because the student thinks they know it all. Though she ran an abundance of trails trying to state whether this was true or not. Dweck labeled two different kind of learners, helpless and mastery. Each person as a different way of learning; helpless believe that they are not in control of their own learning, mastery believe that only you are in control and that you grow in intellectual skills. The mind-set of these learners affect their problem solving abilities,

The book The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science, written by Dr. Norman Doidge, provides different intimate experiences from people that received help through neuroplasticity exercises. Each story describes how the brain is able to readjust itself. Brain plasticity can physically modify the brain by uncovering rewarding and tragic experiences. Changes in the brain can also occur as we age. Throughout the reading I learned several knowledgeable facts I did not know before. Some being the transcription and template functions, and the effects memory and learning have on the transformation of the brain over time. Another was Jordan Grafman’s research on the four kinds of plasticity; map expansion, sensory reassignment, compensatory masquerade, and mirror region takeover.

One of the most basic beliefs we carry about ourselves, Dweck found in her research, has to do with how we view and inhabit what we consider to be our personality. A “fixed mindset” is that we assumes that our intelligence, character, and creativity are static traits givens which we can’t change in any way, and success is the allegation of that inborn intelligence, an estimate of how those givens measure up against an equally fixed standard; aiming for prosperity and dodging failure becomes a way of claiming the sense of being smart or skilled. A “growth mindset,” on the other hand, emphasis on challenge and sees failure as evidence of unintelligence but as a positive bounce

According to Carol Dweck more research and studies on “Brainology” are showing a human brain change’s constantly through learning and experience it takes place throughout our lives. It does have implications for student’s motivation and learning. Some people believe that intelligence is fixed (each person has a certain amount) they call this a fixed mindset. Fixed mindset turns into difficult challenges that are threatening to students it makes them believe their fixed ability is not up to task. Some students believe that intelligence is something that may be fixed through effort, trying, and education. Students believe everyone can improve their abilities.

Carol Dweck in the article “Brainology " talks about the different mindsets that create separate psychological worlds. The first mindset being a growth mindset. Believing you can you can work to gain intelligence, you get praised for hard work. Rather than having a fixed mindset where you believe you don't gain intelligence ether you’re born with it or not. People with the fixed mindset receive praise for their intelligence, requiring no work. "Those with a growth mindset had a very straightforward idea that the harder you work the more ability will grow even Geniuses had to work for their accomplishments.” Brainology raises students’ achievement by helping gain a growth mindset. Students that have a fixed mindset believe their intelligence

When you tell kids that they are doing something right, even its wrong it completely changes their mindset. They think they are doing everything right and their brain doesn't grow. By struggling and making mistakes it makes our brains grow. Also our intelligence in not based on all the things we do right its about us embracing our mistakes throughout life. Our mindsets are either fixed or growth by how we were taught things and how people praised what did wrong or right. The authors purpose for writing this piece was to inform people on what they are teaching their kids was the wrong way. It was to teach people that they should change the way they teach their kids and make them smarter by praising their mistakes and not on all the things that

Caroline Palmer, professor at Ohio State University and has a Music Cognition Lab and a Cognitive Psychologist. She has her PhD and researches about people remembering long sequences of speech and music and how they make these sequences. The target audience for this article is psychologist, researchers and psychology students. The article mentions a lot of psychological studies and cognitive terms. It explains the terms in very simple forms, but the concept might be harder for a regular everyday person to understand.