What is the author's purpose?
He wrote the article concerning about why psychological intervention that change students’ mentality are effective and what can educators do to enhance these mentality and create resilience in educational settings.
What are the author's central arguments or conclusions? Are they clearly stated? Are they supported by evidence and analysis?
He discussed about two main implicit theory – (implicit theory of intelligence and implicit theory of personality). He first state that in implicit theory of intelligence, there are two groups which is the incremental theory group and entity theory group. Incremental theory group is taught about learning and growth but the entity theory group is taught about measuring your ability.
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He also argued about does this theory affect academic behavior over time? To prove that this theory can affect academic behavior over time, they tried to apply this theory to the middle-school student. The result shows that the outcome of their math and verbal test scores of the incremental group has improved. Blackwell and colleagues create two different intervention which is the incremental theory of intervention and a study skills intervention. During the transition of middle school, the control group math grades continued to decline but for the treatment group, the decreasing trend tend to be reversed. Then, he introduce the implicit theories intervention to community college student who were placed in remedial math classes due to high rate of failure. The result is almost the same as Blackwell’s experiment. Finally, he tried to check out the effectiveness of this theory through the internet and convey them to more than 200 community college student that entered in development math classes. They randomly select students to read either about the incremental theory or the same control article about how the brain function but it did not mention about the brain’s potential to grow and can …show more content…
He stated that implicit theories of personality can affect the resilience following rival victimization and eviction. He expected implicit theories of personality to implement crucial clout for understanding in adolescent. As rival victimization can lead to negative behavior, he research about two groups – entity theory of personality and incremental theory of personality. He found that student that possessed entity theory of personality tends to think more negatively and appear to be more vengeful when dealing with peer conflicts. This group of student classify their peer as a bad person and tend to blame themselves for not being a likeable person. In the other hand, the incremental theory group, instead of feeling vengeful to the peer, they try to warn the bullies by telling them the consequences of their act. The incremental theory group came out with more positive ways to overcome rival victimization. This group of student respond to social adversity less ashamed and feel less desire of vengeful and therefore the incremental group theory are more resilience than the entity theory
This essay will explore one of the possible combinations of theories on personality and explain how it can be applied in practical therapy.
The author did a good job of picking a side to the argument and being able to defend it with reasoning.
Schultz, D. P., & Schultz, S. E. (2013). Theories of personality (10th ed.). Belmont, CA: Cengage/Wadsworth.
Individuals who are victims of a crime are more likely to commit a crime or criminal act. The criminal act inflicted upon the individual can be physical, mental, emotional, or verbal attacks. Nevertheless, the individual has fallen victim of a crime, therefore they are more than likely to retaliate. This is known as victim retaliation. The four elements of Hirschi’s social bond contribute greatly to victim retaliation because the victim’s attachment to family and friends who he or she believed would help him has disintegrated. Moreover, the individual’s involvement and commitment in school activities may be the cause of him or her becoming a victim. Through this process of...
Overall, I agree with the arguments she presents in her article and find some of them correspond very well with the conclusion I had written about.
What are the main ideas and/or issues of the article as it relates to the chosen topic?
Summarize what you think is the most important information in the article. You should include details and examples from the article. Also, identify any inferences or conclusions that this article makes.
What are the major points of the article and why do you think they are main
A traumatic experience can physically and emotionally affect a child. Overcoming a traumatic experience means that the child is resilient. According to Werner (1995), “Resilient children exhibit good developmental outcomes despite high-risk status, sustained competence under stress, and recovery from trauma” (as cited in Couchenour & Chrisman, 2011, p. 91). Teachers can help build resilience in their students. This article mainly focuses on this topic and provides different strategies that teachers could use to help students overcome traumatic experiences.
Discuss defense of claims made in the paper. Is the author using sources to defend claims? What sources? How convincing are they? What other information might the author use? Has the author remembered to acknowledge the opposition? To repeat myself: the sources are insufficient. Look for: magazines, journal articles, and scholarly books. Run subject searches on InfoTrac.
The social-cognitive theory suggests that personality consists of learned behaviors and mental processes. The social-cognitive theory emphasizes thoughts, feelings, thinking, values and expectations.
A Comparison of the Main Approaches to Personality Psychology Psychology of personality is a difficult concept to define and quantify, therefore most personality theories, however different they may be in other respects, share the basic assumption, that personality is a particular pattern of behaviour and thinking, that prevails across time and situations and differentiates one person from another. Most theories attempting to explain personality represent part of the classic psychological Nature verse Nurture debate. In other words, is personality “inherited”, or developed through our interactions with the environment. In addition, we shall compare and contrast two of the main approaches to personality psychology by concentrating on Psychoanalytical Theory (Freud) and Social Learning Theory (Bandura). By looking at the Psychodynamic approach, developed by Freud, we can argue that it emphasizes the interplay of unconscious psychological processes in determining human thought, feelings, and behaviours.
Magnavita, J. J. (2002). Theories of personality: Contemporary approaches to the science of personality. New York: Wiley.
The theory that has always interested me is the cognitive theory, pioneered by Jean Piaget. It is a theory based on the idea that an individual's thought processes and the way those processes affect the person's understanding of the world. Piaget's cognitive theory determines how this understanding, and expectations it creates, affects the individual's attitude, beliefs, and behavior. His theory on Cognitive Development in a nutshell explains the way biology influences how children conceptualize and deal with tasks at different stages while growing up. Piaget's theory focuses more on how children's behavior changes as they grow and how the children interact with their environment.
School is an environment where children are intended to learn many interpersonal skills. Through emotional learning they develop self awareness, more specifically identifying and recognising emotions, strengths, needs and values, self-efficacy and spirituality. Students develop self management by controlling and managing stress, self motivating and developing organisational skills. They are also able to make decisions b...