Title: Ten Advances in Psychological Science in 2010
Title: Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
Author(s): Art Markman Ph.D.
Author(s): Carol Dweck, Ph.D
Publication: article on the website Psychology Today
Publication: book published by Ballintine Books Trade
Page Numbers:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/ulteriormotives/201012/ten-advances-in-psychological-sciencein-2010
Page Numbers: pg.5, 10
Date: 2006
Date: December 17, 2010
Main point of the article: Important advances, or contributions to our world, that psychologists have made. This article
summarized what the author believes are the 10 most important papers, emphasizing psychology, written in the year
2010. The book is all about “Growth Mindset” the same topic of the article.
Quotes, paraphrases, or notes that support the main idea (note page numbers).
1. First source: “Your beliefs about psychological abilities matter.” The author states that Carol Dweck and her
colleagues have focused on what we think and believe about ourselves and how that effects our abilities and
talents.
2. Second source: The IQ test was not meant to be an ultimate test of intelligence. “The developer of the IQ tests,
Alfred Binet, did not design the test to give a person a score that is the measure of one’s intelligence, he
designed the test to identify children that were “not profiting from the Paris public schools, so that new
educational programs could be designed to get them back on track. “He believed that education and practice
could bring about fundamental changes in intelligence.“Binet recognized, it’s not always the people who start
out the smartest who end up the smartest.”
3. Second source: “Instead, as you begin to understand the fixed and growth mindsets, you will see exactly how
one thing leads to another – how a belief that your qualities are carved in stone leads to a host of thoughts and
actitons, and how a belief that your qualities can be cultivated leads to a host of different thoughts and actions,
taking you down an entirely different road. It’s what we psychologists call and Aha! Experience. Not only have I
seen this in my research when we teach people a new mindset, but I get letters all the time from people who
have read my work.”
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Other Notes: Possible beginning sentence - Psychologists have made many advances over the years. The
research on a Growth Mindset choice is beginning to change the way that people think and, as a result,
creating more success in their lives. Denis Waitley states, “If you believe you can, you probably can. If
you believe you won’t, you most assuredly won’t. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the
launching pad.”