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A growth mindset is a deeply held belief that a person can learn anything given enough time and effort. Carol Dweck is a Professor of Psychology at Stanford University. She is the world’s most recognised student of the mindset trait. In her 2014 Ted talk, Dweck spoke about growth mindset in terms of, ‘The power of yet’.
When your child says, “I can’t do this”, then you need to add, “Yet. I can’t do this yet”. Dweck’s research shows that even explaining this concept to a child will affect the way they view their learning. She points to evidence that says, an understanding of growth mindset changes neural pathways that allow for greater growth in learning.
Rather, these psychologists argue, children develop a sophisticated repertoire of task-specific (or domain-specific) skills and strategies on the basis of “associations” among many similar or related experiences. In effect this is a form of complex “behaviourism”, which is the way we adapt to our environment. Some researchers argue that genetic pre-specification of domain-specific learning is too limited a concept to explain the flexibility of people’s actual learning behaviour within a domain.