Development of associations between elementary school students' mindsets and attentional neural processing of feedback in an arithmetic task.

ABSTRACT: The aim of this study was to examine the development of the associations between elementary school students' mindsets and the attentional neural processing of positive and negative feedback in math. For this, we analyzed data collected twice from 100 Finnish elementary school students. During the autumn semesters of their 3rd and 4th grade, the participants' general intelligence mindset and math ability mindset were measured with a questionnaire, and their brain responses elicited by performance-relevant feedback were recorded during an arithmetic task. We found that students' fixed mindsets about general intelligence and math ability were associated with greater attention allocated to positive feedback as indicated by a larger P300. These associations were driven by the effects of mindset

SUBMITTER: Puusepp I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10043393 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature