A secondary school notices that many Year 9 pupils give up on maths problems as soon as they get one wrong, and some say, "I'm just not a maths person." Teachers have usually written comments such as "Excellent, you're a natural" on the best work. The school decides to change how it gives feedback and to hold lessons on how the brain changes when we learn.
Using Dweck's mindset theory, explain the pupils' behaviour and how the school's changes could help.
104 exam-style questions on OCR GCSE Psychology 2.2 Theories/Explanations, covering 2.2.1 Piaget's four invariant stages, 2.2.2 Assimilation and accommodation, 2.2.3 Object permanence, animism, egocentrism, 2.2.4 Decentration, reversibility, conservation; criticisms, 2.2.5 Cognitive Development research study: Piaget (1952), 2.2.6 Dweck's fixed and growth mindsets, 2.2.7 Willingham's learning styles and meaning; criticisms, and 2.2.8 Learning research study: Blackwell et al. (2007). Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.