Author Question: Nora is a highly ranked competitive swimmer who generally feels good about herself as a person and ... (Read 23 times)

bucstennis@aim.com · **on:** Jun 19, 2018

Nora is a highly ranked competitive swimmer who generally feels good about herself as a person and as a swimmer. Her last two meets, however, have gone surprisingly poorly. How is she mostly likely to feel about her capabilities after these performances?

a. that she will never be as fast as the top freestyler in the world
b. that she was better in the past, despite her increasing success now
c. that her losses were primarily the fault of her coach
d. that she is still far faster than her teammates in freestyle

Question 2

Which toddler is likely to have the highest self-esteem when reaching first grade?

a. Amber, who is alternately clingy and rejecting toward her mother when she returns from work, though she shows great distress when her mother leaves for the day
b. Rhonda, who does not show distress when her mother leaves her with a new babysitter and does not immediately approach her mother when she returns
c. Joshua, who sometimes freezes in place, and at other times, seems confused when his mother returns from errands
d. Mario, who plays while his mother and the new babysitter chat, cries when his mother leaves him with the babysitter, and then runs over to his mother upon her return