Researchers have proposed that African American and Hispanic American adolescents may not fare as well in their academic endeavors because of all of the following reasons EXCEPT __________
a) African American students are more apt to view success as a result of external causes over which they have no control, such as societal biases, rather than internal causes, such as overcoming temporary setbacks by working harder
b) African American and Hispanic American adolescents tend to believe that they can succeed despite poor school performance
c) African American and Hispanic American students are less likely to subscribe to the belief that effort will lead to success
d) African American and Hispanic American students are not born with the intellectual capacity to succeed academically
Answer: d
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