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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Nature

The inherent qualities or characteristics of something, or the physical world collectively, including plants, animals, landscapes, and other features and products of the earth.

Nurture

The influence of external factors like environment, education, and social experiences on the development of an individual.

Natural Selection

The process by which biological traits become either more or less common in a population as a function of the effect of inherited traits on the differential reproductive success of organisms interacting with their environment.

Epigenetics

The study of heritable changes in gene expression that do not involve changes to the underlying DNA sequence, often influenced by environmental factors.