According to the Textbook, All of the Following Are Potentially

question 53

Multiple Choice

According to the textbook, all of the following are potentially successful ways to reduce adolescent risk taking except:

• A) classroom-based education programs designed to teach adolescents about the dangers of various activities, make better decisions, and resist peer pressure to engage in risky activity.
• B) limiting adolescents' opportunities to put themselves in risky situations and making risky substances harder for adolescents to obtain.
• C) making the penalties for engaging in certain risky behaviors more severe and increasing the salience of the potential costs of engaging in the risky behavior.
• D) finding ways to permit adolescents to take risks without putting themselves in situations in which they can hurt
• Themselves.

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