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Child Psych

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Self-conception refers to a person’s beliefs about their attributes. The overjustification hypothesis suggests that:
  1. Rewarding people for doing something enjoyable can undermine their interest in the activity.
  2. Not rewarding people for doing something enjoyable can undermine their interest in the activity.
  3. Emotion can be experienced only after someone has experienced a physiological arousal and a cognitive interpretation of that arousal.
  4. When lacking strong internal cues, people infer by observing their behavior in the situational context.
Explanation
Answer: A - The over justification hypothesis suggests that rewarding people for an enjoyable activity can undermine their interest in that activity. This hypothesis can also apply to too-high incidences of performance of an enjoyable task with no reinforcement.
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