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Self-theories, their role in motivation, personality, and development, Carol S. Dweck

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Self-theories, their role in motivation, personality, and development, Carol S. Dweck

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-173) and index

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Self-theories

Nature of contents

bibliographydictionaries

Responsibility statement

Carol S. Dweck

Series statement

Essays in social psychology

Sub title

their role in motivation, personality, and development

Table Of Contents

What promotes adaptive motivation? Four beliefs and four truths about ability, success, praise, and confidence -- When failure undermines and when failure motivates: helpless and mastery-oriented responses -- Achievement goals: looking smart versus learning -- Is intelligence fixed or changeable? Students' theories about their intelligence foster their achievement goals -- Theories of intelligence predict (and create) differences in achievement -- Theories of intelligence create high and low effort -- Implicit theories and goals predict self-esteem loss and depressive reactions to negative events -- Why confidence and success are not enough -- What is IQ and does it matter? -- Believing in fixed social traits: impact on social coping -- Judging and labeling others: another effect of implicit theories -- Belief in the potential to change -- Holding and forming stereotypes -- How does it all begin? Young children's theories about goodness and badness -- Kinds of praise and criticism: the origins of vulnerability -- Praising intelligence: more praise that backfires -- Misconceptions about self-esteem and about how to foster it -- Personality, motivation, development, and the self: theoretical reflections -- Final thoughts on controversial issues -- Appendix: Measures of implicit theories, confidence, and goals

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