Which of the Following Students Has an Incremental View of Ability

question 31

Multiple Choice

Which of the following students has an incremental view of ability?

• A)Cassidy is trying different strategies for learning her vocabulary words.She is sure she will find a strategy that works for her.
• B)Devon knows his dad did well in math when he was a student,but Devon believes he got his mom's genes and can't do as well as his dad.
• C)Staci makes good grades in literature,but she doesn't understand science.She knows there's nothing she can do to make high grades in science.
• D)Marcus's teacher asked him if he wanted to use the tutorial on the computer.He said it wouldn't help.He said his teachers have always told him he doesn't have a mind for math.

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Definitions:

NPV

Net Present Value; a method used in capital budgeting to evaluate the profitability of an investment by calculating the difference between the present value of cash inflows and outflows over a period of time.

Payback

Payback is a capital budgeting metric that measures the time required for an investment to generate cash flows sufficient to recover the initial investment cost.

Mutually Exclusive

Situations, choices, or events that cannot occur or be chosen at the same time; selecting one option excludes the possibility of the other.

WACC

The Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) represents the expected average return rate a company owes its security holders for financing its assets.