Child Mindset Research Paper

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Cheree Fraser
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There are many research findings on the way parents can influence a child’s mindset. Whether it be a fixed or a growth mindset, researchers say they are obtained early in life with the help of parents. A fixed mindset is a mentality that intelligence has a cap and once someone has reached that cap, it cannot go further. Intelligence is fixed and they do not believe they can get any smarter. A growth mindset is the mentality that one’s intelligence is always growing. They can achieve more and learn as much as possible since there is no cap. Through parent’s actions it is likely to predict what kind of mindset their children have, specifically the parent’s helpfulness. Research has also found that parent’s praise …show more content…

C., Gunderson, E. A., Gripshover, S. J., Romero, C. & Dweck, C. S., 2013). Researchers visited children and their parents every four months and observed what kind of language parent’s used towards their children throughout the day. Participants were not aware praise would be measured, but were aware that language would be. Through this, researchers discovered process praise being used. Process praise is praising, but leaving room for improvement. For example, “Good job, just fix this next time,” would be an example of process praise. This later led to children having growth mindsets because they always knew they could do better. If the parents used more language like “This is perfect,” children were much more likely to have a fixed mindset since they didn’t feel the need to …show more content…

Usually, a parent’s mindset will match their child’s mindset. Unconsciously, parents influence their children through ways of praise, helpfulness, and their perception of their child’s abilities. This all is incorporated into how an authority figure can be an influential factor towards someone’s mindset. Though both parents influence their child’s mindset, mothers have a stronger power to do so. All findings of the studies were the same; parents influence their child’s mindsets, though different methods were used to achieve this through praise, helpfulness, and perception of their child’s abilities. Overall, being an authority figure can influence one’s

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