Which of the Following Is NOT True About Carol Dweck's

question 149

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is NOT true about Carol Dweck's early work on achievement?

• A)She found boys often attributed their difficulties to a lack of effort.
• B)She found girls tended to attribute their difficulties to a lack of ability.
• C)She started encouraging children to attribute failures to internal but stable factors.
• D)She found girls were more likely to give up trying to get better at math.

Understand the significance of individual differences and stability over time in development.

Recognize the role of sensitive periods and the evolutionary perspective on development.

Distinguish between cause and correlation in interpreting research findings.

Understand the benefits and applications of various research designs in developmental psychology, including cohort sequential, cross-sectional, and longitudinal studies.

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Definitions:

Offspring

The children or young born to a person, animal, or plant.

Maturation

Biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior, relatively uninfluenced by experience.

Education

The process of facilitating learning or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, beliefs, and habits through various means.

Accommodation

In cognitive psychology, the process of modifying existing cognitive schemas, perceptions, and understandings to incorporate new information.