Different Psychological Worlds, Part 2

Abstract

We continue our examination of the different psychological worlds students inhabit in this chapter, examining research from neuroscience about cognition and neuroplasticity; research conducted by psychologist Carol Dweck on “mindsets”; landmark longitudinal research on early childhood caregiving reported in The Development of the Person: The Minnesota Study of Risk and Adaptation from Birth to Adulthood (Sroufe, Egeland, Carlson, and Collins); and research conducted by social psychologist Claude M. Steele on “identity contingencies” and stereotype threat. We will also examine state and federal housing policies that produced segregated neighborhoods across America, what research tells us about the many challenges faced by first-generation college students, and James S. Coleman’s foundational research that first discovered the link between family resources and academic achievement.