Assignment:
Criticism and Praise
A Short Answer Quiz
The following questions are based on the article "Person Versus Process Praise and Criticism:
Implications for Contingent Self-Worth and Coping" by Melissa L. Kamins and Carol S. Dweck. Your answers should be concise sentences using your own words. No quotes.
1. As a general rule, feedback to children is given as either praise or criticism. Within these categories feedback can evaluate two distinct aspects. What are these areas?
2. What are the aspects of a helpless response in children? What are the aspects of mastery-oriented responses?
3. What is contingent self-worth?
4. In Kamins and Dweck's first study, the finding showed that children's experiences with feedback affected how they responded to setbacks. What were the two specific findings?
5. Did the results of the second study, the effect of praise on subsequent setbacks, differ among the children from the results of the first study? If so, how?
Remember to make your answers brief and to the point. Each of these questions can be answered in two or three sentences. Submit your answers in APA formatting (no title page necessary) in the appropriate assignment listing.
Readings:
Person Versus Process Praise and Criticism: Implications for Contingent Self-Worth and Coping
By Melissa L. Kamins and Carol S. Dweck