Angelina doesn't seem to even want to try to do well in her high school math class. If her mom Jolie wants to help her change her self-defeating pattern of behavior, Jolie should

a. provide the most cognitively stimulating home environment that she can.
b. tell Angelina her failures thus far have just been due to bad luck.
c. offer her a bribe if her scores go up.
d. continually nag her about her grades.


a

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