According to Dweck and Associates, Many Teachers Unwittingly Foster a Sense

question 6

Multiple Choice

According to Dweck and associates, many teachers unwittingly foster a sense of learned helplessness through their feedback for a child's successes and failures.Which of the following patterns of attribution are these teachers most likely to use?

• A)They attribute success to luck and failure to lack of effort.
• B)They attribute success to high effort and failure to low ability.
• C)They attribute success to high ability and failure to unfair testing conditions.
• D)They attribute success to hard work and failure to low ability.

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