How does a growth mindset influence response to feedback in Self II learning?

• A. It fosters resilience, strategy use, and openness to feedback.
• B. It makes feedback unnecessary.
• C. It discourages trying new strategies.
• D. It ensures perfect performance immediately.

Answer: (A)

A growth mindset shapes how learners handle feedback by turning critique into information for improvement. When you believe abilities can develop with effort, feedback isn’t seen as a verdict but as guidance about what to adjust. In Self II learning, this leads to resilience: you meet challenging feedback with persistence, using it to refine your approach rather than give up. It also encourages trying new strategies or adapting current ones based on what the feedback reveals about what works and what doesn’t. Openness to feedback follows naturally because it’s expected to point the way to growth, not expose fixed limits.

If you treated feedback as unnecessary, you’d miss a key driver of progress. If you avoided trying new strategies, you’d stall growth because you’d be sticking with what you already know, regardless of what feedback indicates. If you expected perfect performance right away, you’d ignore the process of learning and the value of iterative improvement that feedback supports.