Three of the following statements accurately describe cultural and ethnic differences in motivation. Which statement is false?
A) Compared to other cultural groups, children in Native American families are given very little independence and autonomy.
B) On average, students from Asian cultures are more concerned about getting good grades than students from other ethnic groups.
C) Some African American students have a sense of learned helplessness about their ability to achieve school success, perhaps because of prior experiences with racial discrimination.
D) Compared to their classmates raised in mainstream Western culture, students from Asian cultures are more likely to attribute school success to hard work, rather than to inherited ability.
A
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a. segregated employment b. special day class placement c. attendance at neighborhood school d. Special Olympics
Literature reveals that three basic programs in schools can be identified to promote safer sex and prevent pregnancy:
a. Abstinence-only, those that discuss abstinence and contraception with concrete information about contraception, and comprehensive programs b. Abstinence-only, those that discuss purging, and comprehensive programs c. Abstinence-only, those that discuss abstinence and contraception with no information about contraception, and comprehensive programs d. Abstinence-only, those that discuss contraception only with concrete information about contraception, and comprehensive programs e. None of the above
Monitoring your concerns will help you be ______.
a. critical b. reflective c. competitive d. concerned
Prenatal development is influenced by both nature and nurture. Describe at least two ways in which nature is involved and at least two ways in which nurture is also involved in prenatal physical development.
What will be an ideal response?