The best approach for parents who want to encourage their children to develop the need to achieve is to
A) reward achievement with money, goodies, or privileges.
B) punish failure by restricting privileges.
C) encourage their children to explore new ideas on their own.
D) check their children's homework every night.
C
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Sherif’s study of the autokinetic effect situation indicated that norms
a. emerge through reciprocal influence. b. describe how members act, feel, and think. c. define which behaviors are “bad” or “wrong.” d. emerge from personal, idiosyncratic beliefs. e. identify behaviors that should not be performed.
Which of the following examples describes a gene-environment interaction?
a. Exposure to poverty in childhood is associated with poor academic performance. b. A boy inherits a perfectionistic personality characteristic and tends to choose activities that have a low chance of failure, which actually reinforces his perfectionistic tendencies. c. Fair-skinned people are genetically more prone to develop skin cancer; however, if they avoid excessive sun exposure, this genetic predisposition may not lead to the development of skin cancer. d.A person's genetic risk for heart disease is compounded by an additional genetic risk for diabetes.