Which Statement About Attribution Retraining Is True

question 51

Multiple Choice

Which statement about attribution retraining is true?

• A) It encourages low-effort students to focus more on grades and less on mastering a task for individual improvement.
• B) It is best begun early, before children's views of themselves become hard to change.
• C) It encourages children to believe that success should be attributed to ability, rather than luck or effort.
• D) Children who participate in it do not require instruction in effective strategies and self-regulation.

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Definitions:

Preoperational

Pertains to Piaget’s stage of cognitive development (typically ages 2-7) in which children start to use language to explore and understand their environments, but do not yet use logical mental operations.

Sensorimotor

Referring to the developmental stage in Piaget's theory of cognitive development, where infants learn through interacting with the world using their senses and motor abilities.

Egocentrism

A cognitive bias where individuals overemphasize their own point of view at the expense of others' perspectives.

Animism

The belief that objects, places, and creatures all possess a distinct spiritual essence.