If the correlations between one's self-concept and academic performance were positive, we could say that
a. academic performance and self-concept are largely unrelated.
b. academic performance is an important cause of one's self-concept.
c. one's self-concept is an important cause of academic performance.
d. a self-concept and academic performance are related, but no causal relationship has been established.
ANSWER: d
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