PROGRESS WEEK 4

LITERASI BAHASA INGGRIS

Many parents in past decades believed that intelligence and many other
abilities were fixed traits. A child was born smart or not, and little could be done to
change that. More recent research has upended that notion, and shown that
encouraging parents to adopt a so-called growth mindset leads to better educational
outcomes for their children. But it has been unclear at what point such a mindset can
impact a child’s life, and new research hints it may start very early.
A recently released study by Mei Elansary, a pediatric specialist at Boston
Medical Center, and five other scholars found that a maternal growth mindset could
mitigate negative effects of stress on mothers in the early months of a child’s life and
promote brain development. The team’s work built on previous research, including
that of Meredith Rowe, Saul Zaentz Professor of Early Learning and Development,
which showed the positive effects of a growth mindset in mother-child interactions.
“A maternal growth mindset is the belief that you can grow your abilities
through work and effort, and that I can help my children learn new things and grow
and expand their abilities,” said Elansary. “Conversely, a maternal fixed mindset is
the belief that abilities are going to stay the same over time, no matter how hard I
work or how much investment as a mom I put into my child’s learning.”
The new inquiry included 33 mothers and their children, who were 12 months
of age and part of a longitudinal cohort study on the role of stress and child
development. The study was led by Charles Nelson, professor of pediatrics and
neuroscience at Harvard Medical School and professor of education at the Harvard
Graduate School of Education. The mothers were recruited from the primary care
clinic at Boston Children’s Hospital, which serves families who are publicly insured.
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2022/01/turns-out-smarter-kids-are-made-not-
born/

1. The paragraph following the passage most likely discusses…

A) results found from the study
B) things that are done during the study
 C) an explanation of the maternal growth mindset
D) the relationship between maternal growth mindset and children’s intelligence
E) a description of the main contributors in the study

2. What is the author’s attitude in the passage?

A) Informative
B) Critical
C) Judgemental
D) Optimistic
E) Horrified

3. According to Elansary, what is the difference between a maternal fixed mindset

and a maternal growth mindset?
A) The growth mindset believes that the child ability would remain the same
even with investments, while the fixed mindset is the opposite of the growth
mindset
B) The fixed mindset causes a child to develop their abilities slower, whereas a
growth mindset gives the the support system a child need to rapidly grow
C) The growth mindset is a belief that it is possible to grow one’s abilities
through hard work, while a fixed mindset is a belief that it is useless to invest
so much on a child as their abilities are predetermined from birth.
D) The growth mindset is a belief that thinks about the child’s development,
while the fixed mindset is a belief that focuses more on the well-being of the
child.
E) The fixed mindset removes any hope of the child to develop, while the
growth mindset provides the child with the environment to develop their skills
further.

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