After a tragic drag race that kills several students, a high school faculty wants to take action to reduce risk-taking behaviors among its student body. If the faculty considers recent research on risk taking in adolescence, its best course of action would be to:
a. identify and sponsor opportunities for reasonable, supervised risk taking.
b. invite guest speakers whose lives have been adversely affected by the poor choices they made as teenagers.
c. present national statistics regarding the probabilities of serious consequences when adolescents drive at high speeds, engage in unprotected sex, and so on.
d. ask the police department to increase late-night supervision in parts of town where students have been known to do foolish things.
a
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