Self-study
Conclusion Parents who consistently laud their children for every attempt to accomplish something, whether successful or not, actually erode the youngsters' sense of self-esteem. ████████ ███████ ████████████ ███ █████ █████████████ ███ ██ █████████ ███████ ███ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████████████ ███ ████ ████ ████ ██████ ██████████ ████ ████ ██████████ ████████ ███ █████ ██ █████████████ ██ ███████ ████ ████████ █████ ████ ███ ██████ ██ ████
Summarize Argument
Parents that always praise their child for all of their efforts can actually hurt the child’s self-esteem, because doing this causes the child to reject all praise.
Identify Conclusion
The conclusion is the side-effect of indiscriminately praising a child: “Parents who consistently laud their children for every attempt to accomplish something, whether successful or not, actually erode the youngsters’ sense of self-esteem.”
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a
Parents should praise █████ ████████ ███ █████ █████████████
There’s no recommendation on whether parents should praise their kids for achievements. The argument is only identifying an effect caused by praising all effort (regardless of achievement).
b
Children whose actions ███ ███████ ████████████ ██████████ █████ ██ ████████ ███ █████ ██ ███████
Rather than a conclusion, this is a modified version of the author’s premise (when kids get too much praise, they ignore it).
Also, the author does identify a negative side effect of praising efforts that don’t result in success, but we can’t assume this means that those efforts are undeserving of praise.
c
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There’s no discussion of parental expectation or child capability. Also, there’s no prescription on what parents need to do. The argument simply states that a certain behavior can lead to an unwanted outcome.
d
Children's self-esteem will ██████ ██ █████ ███████ █████████ ██████ █████ ████████ ██ ██████████ ██████ ██████████ ██ █████ ███████ ██ ████████
This accurately captures the main conclusion. The stimulus argues that parents who “consistently laud” (uniformly praise) a child’s efforts will eventually “erode” the child’s self-esteem (causing it to suffer).
e
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The stimulus argues that too much praise harms children's self-esteem, not that too little praise causes low self-esteem. Also, the stimulus argues that too much praise lowers self-esteem (a relative comparison), but that’s different than “low self-esteem” (an absolute).