Seminar Reflection

Think of a time in your past that you believe defined you as an individual. (Fixed mindset!) Look at it from a growth mindset point of view. Ask: What did I (or can I) learn from that experience? How can I use it for a basis for growth?

Reflection

A time in my life that I had a fixed mindset was when I was being bullied in elementary school. At the time I felt being short and quite defined me as a person. I felt that I am quiet and there’s nothing I could’ve done to change it. I even started agreeing with my bully and believing that I am weird because I’m so short. My fixed mindset led me to not make friends or get high grades because I preferred to stay quiet than talk to others or participate in class. My teachers would try to encourage me by telling me I am smart. They would ask me to help students understand the topics the way I understood it. But my fear of speaking to others and how they would respond to me stopped me from being able to help my classmates. I also realized I was hurting myself from not talking to the students when I didn’t understand the instructions given.

After I graduated fifth grade and changed schools, I thought I should try being less shy by trying to make friends. I started talking a bit more and participating in school. Looking at this experience now with a growth mindset, I realized I had a terrible fixed mindset because I believed the things that were said to me and preferably would not like to address that. However from my experience I learned to let go of negative things and not believe in them. After this experience I became more of my real self by being less shy and meeting new people. Throughout all my teenage years in middle school and high school, I started getting better grades than in elementary because I didn’t have a problem participating or doing group work.

Now that I have a growth mindset, I realize I wasted time not believing in myself and not putting enough effort into learning as well as others. Many

students experienced participating in front of the whole class which I refused to do back in elementary school. Turns out now I have to and want to do more activities that are related to discussing topics with people/groups. From my experience I learned to not let my height or how “shy” I can be, stop me from achieving anything anybody says I can’t do.

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Welcome to my Seminar ! We will begin to answer some random questions.



Questions to start the seminar !

   First thing is first, 

“Conformity is a type of social influence involving a change in belief or behavior in order to fit in with a group.” 

> Critical Questions <

• How does conformity related to mindset?
• In what ways are people with fixed mindsets similar to conformists?
• In what ways are people with growth mindsets similar to non-conformists?
• How is your behavior influenced by the groups around you?
• Are mindsets “contagious”?

We will watch a video based on the Asch Experiment designed to see the extent of social pressure on someone’s behavior.

Group Conformity Experiment Soloman Asch

Please complete a 3-2-1 based on today's seminar. 

More Milgram Experiment

Quick Write: Based on what I learned so far from the Milgram experiment, I believe people are good but sometimes make bad decisions. Everyone has a conscience of how they feel but get encouraged to do bad things by others.

Based on the Bad Show podcast:
 From the podcast, I learned the Milgram Experiment didn't really show that people were just following orders from authority. It really shows how the "teachers," also known as the people being experimented on the Milgram Experiment, believe they are important to the scientific study of memory. From what I learned before from the article, Stanley Milgram believe people obeyed authority so much that they lost their self conscience of hurting others.  My new understandings about humanity is when people believe they are important to something they will go to any extent for it. This shows why participants in the Milgram Experiment were willing to go all the way with the electric shocks. We should be optimistic about humanity because not everyone has bad intentions in this world. Sometimes we have the best intentions but don't use it in the best way possible.  

Milgram Experiment

Quick Write: I believe it's never right to disrespect or disobey your own parents. However if your parents don't agree with you about something and wouldn't want to talk to you about it. Then you have the right to disobey them and do what you want to. For example, when I didn't want to go to school, my mother would fight with me because I needed to go to school which makes that a time I had to obey her. I disobeyed my mother when I was really young and didn't want to clean something my brother had messed up. I was right to disobey her because I didn't do the mess that was created.

Following this four columns template I answered the question, "Why do people blindly obey authority?" on the source Milgram Experiment.

Questions	Factual Information	Supporting Details	Source
Why is this a problem?	This is a problem because most people react to obey authority instead of being aware of how they are hurting someone else.	In the experiment 60- 65% of the people went all the way through with the electric shocks because they were just being told to.
What are the causes of this problem?	I believe the cause of this problem is terrible people with no conscience of hurting others, using people that obey them to hurt others.	For example, Hitler used germans that obeyed him to kill innocent people. He did it because everyone was obeying him instead of stopping him.	Videos and the article.
What are the effects of this problem?	Effects of this problem can be too much obedience can lead to terrible events such as wars or another Holocaust.	This experiment was conducted because the accomplices of terrible event would use the excuse that they were just following orders from their superiors.	Videos and the article.
Who is affected by this problem?	Everyone would be affected by this problem if obedience is taken too far.	In the Holocaust and other terrible events, innocent people are the ones being affected.	Videos and the article.
How can this problem be solved?	I don't know of a way to solve this problem because we were raised following instructions from our eldest but it's important to keep our self conscience alive, in order not to hurt others.	Stopping authority that use their power for the worse would be a problem solver for this case. Such as stopping a dictator or a leader of a gang from hurting others.	Videos and the article.
What will happen if the problem is ignored?	If this problem is ignored it will become too violent to control like a war.	More wars or authority will receive unnecessary power because of others obeying them.	Videos and the article.