Which of the Following Is True with Respect to the Overjustification

question 19

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is true with respect to the overjustification effect?

• A) Fortunately, most parents intuitively recognize circumstances involving their children in which the overjustification effect is apt to occur.
• B) Helping students to focus on the importance of achieving good grades tends to undermine the overjustification effect.
• C) Hennessey and Zbikowski (1993) effectively immunized fourth graders against the overjustification effect by having older role models come to their classes to speak with them about the joy of learning.
• D) Tang and Hall (1995) found that contingent reward (reward given only for good performance) can mitigate the overjustification effect.

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