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1. In week nine you were asked to watch a TED talk by Carol Dweck (link to Carol Dweck's Ted talk), whose pioneering research on motivation has helped us understand the difference between a growth and a fixed mindset. According to Dweck, which of the following motivational strategies will help young people develop a growth mindset?

a. Recognizing that some human beings are simply smarter than everyone else, and there is nothing we can do to change that fact. The best thing we can do is praise people when they get the right answers.

b. Praise the process people engage in and the effort they put into learning a challenging new skill.

c. Focus on rewarding people for short-term results and don’t worry about long-term performance improvements.

d. Reward people who show up, no matter how engaged or motivated they are or how much effort they put in.

2. In the You Tube video of the shopping cart challenge at IDEO (link to IDEO shopping cart challenge), the design team split up into four groups to conduct some field-based research into how people make, use and repair shopping carts. This is an example of which of the following boundary spanning activities?

a. Scout

b. Task coordinator

c. Hierarchical sensitivity

d. Ambassador

3. During one of our weekly Friday discussion exercises, we asked you to work as a team to make paper airplanes. In the first round of the airplane manufacturing process, each paper plane worker built his or her own planes from start to finish. When each plane was finished, it was put in a central location for quality inspection. This example demonstrated which type of task interdependence?

a. reciprocal

b. pooled

c. sequential

d. comprehensive