Self-theories: Their Role in Motivation, Personality, and DevelopmentThis innovative text sheds light on how people work -- why they sometimes function well and, at other times, behave in ways that are self-defeating or destructive. The author presents her groundbreaking research on adaptive and maladaptive cognitive-motivational patterns and shows:
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Contents
What Promotes Adaptive Motivation? Four Beliefs and Four Truths About Ability Success Praise and Confidence | 1 |
When Failure Undermines and When Failure Motivates Helpless and MasteryOriented Responses | 5 |
Achievement Goals Looking Smart Versus Learning | 15 |
Is Intelligence Fixed or Changeable? Students Theories About Their Intelligence Foster Their Achievement Goals | 20 |
Theories of Intelligence Predict and Create Differences in Achievement | 29 |
Theories of Intelligence Create High and Low Effort | 39 |
Implicit Theories and Goals Predict SelfEsteem Loss and Depressive Reactions to Negative Events | 44 |
Why Confidence and Success Are Not Enough | 51 |
Holding and Forming Stereotypes | 89 |
How Does It All Begin? Young Childrens Theories About Goodness and Badness | 95 |
Kinds of Praise and Criticism The Origins of Vulnerability | 107 |
Praising Intelligence More Praise that Backfires | 116 |
Misconceptions About SelfEsteem and About How to Foster It | 127 |
Personality Motivation Development and the Self Theoretical Reflections | 132 |
Final Thoughts on Controversial Issues | 149 |
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What Is IQ and Does It Matter? | 59 |
Believing in Fixed Social Traits Impact on Social Coping | 64 |
Judging and Labeling Others Another Effect of Implicit Theories | 73 |
Belief in the Potential to Change | 82 |
Measures of Implicit Theories Confidence and Goals | 175 |
Index | 186 |
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Self-theories: Their Role in Motivation, Personality, and Development Carol S. Dweck Limited preview - 2013 |
Self-theories: Their Role in Motivation, Personality, and Development Carol S. Dweck Limited preview - 2013 |
Self-theories: Their Role in Motivation, Personality, and Development Carol S. Dweck No preview available - 1999 |