A child who has adopted _____ goals aims to prove his or her ability rather than to improve this ability

Rob suffers from occasional bouts of depression, but is otherwise a typical teenager. One of his favorite pastimes is browsing Facebook and demonstrating what he likes through "liking."

If he is like most people, his likes will have a _______ correlation to other's assessments and a self-assessment of his personality. A) low negative B) high negative C) high positive D) low positive

In the natural world, there often are many different factors associated with the occurrence of a particular outcome. Therefore it is important that we as critical thinkers _____ whenever possible

A) create unfalsifiable theories B) propose complex statements of causation C) remember that correlation equals causation D) rule out rival hypotheses