13. Why are parents often controlling?

Because they learned these behaviors from their own controlling parents.

Because they are trying to keep their children safe from potential threats.

Because they think this will make their children more successful.

All of the above.

Children’s intrinsic motivation tends to increase until middle school and then drop off sharply in high school.

Most students experience an increase in intrinsic motivation in high school when they have a better sense of what kind of career they want.

Children enter school with a high level of intrinsic motivation for learning, but this generally decreases over the years they are in school.

As long as teachers are not too controlling, children’s intrinsic motivation for learning increases each year they are in school.