?Stanley and Barbara are talking about how they can teach their children, Andrew and Christine, to be more prosocial. They decide that this weekend they are going to take their children to a local food kitchen and they are going to volunteer as a family. After they do so, the children both ask when they can go back and help again. In this case, Stanley and Barbara have helped inspire prosocial behavior through
a. induction of prosocial acts.
b. providing an opportunity to behave prosocially.
c. disciplinary practices that reward prosocial behavior.
d. modeling prosocial behavior.
Ans: b. providing an opportunity to behave prosocially.
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a. search her memory for instances when she did get her exam back first and for instances when she did not. b. search her memory for instances when she did not get her exam back first. c. search her memory for instances when she did get her exam back first. d. wait until the next exam is passed back to see if she gets hers back first.
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