When a child performs poorly on an activity, parents and teachers should

a. focus on the child's impaired ability and retrain the child to become "smarter" in that ability.
b. isolate the negative attribute and help the child relearn the right way to perform the task.
c. identify the impoverished ability and test the child on it repeatedly until the child is familiar enough with the proper way to handle the task.
d. attribute the child's poor performance to the child's effort rather than to his or her ability.


D

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