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Practice Reading: Multiple Choice, Single Answer ID: #36624 Positive attitude
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When learners can act from their most vital selves, their curiosity emerges. They want to make sense of things and seek out challenges that are in their range of capacities and values. This leads to what human beings experience as interest, the emotional nutrient for a continuing positive attitude toward learning. When we feel interested, we have to make choices about what to do to follow that interest. Such choosing or self-determination involves a sense of feeling free in doing what one has chosen to do (Deci and Ryan, 1991). For the process of learning thinking, practicing, reading, revising, studying, and other similar activities to be desirable and genuinely enjoyable, adults must see themselves as personally endorsing their own learning.

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Option 4: "Interest is a result of learners being genuinely curious."

Explanation: This option is correct as the text explicitly states that when learners act from their vital selves, their curiosity emerges, leading to interest. This aligns with the idea that genuine curiosity is the foundation for developing interest in learning.

Option 1: "In order for adults to endorse their own learning, they must follow the steps of the learning process."

Explanation: This option is incorrect because the text does not state that following specific steps is necessary for adults to endorse their learning. Instead, it emphasizes the importance of self-determination and personal endorsement rather than a prescribed process.

Option 2: "A positive attitude toward learning is interesting to adults."

Explanation: This option misinterprets the text. While a positive attitude is mentioned, the text does not suggest that it is 'interesting' to adults. Instead, it describes interest as an emotional nutrient that fosters a positive attitude, not as something that is interesting.

Option 3: "Interest is a challenge that learners seek out."

Explanation: This option is incorrect because the text describes interest as an emotional response that arises from curiosity, not as a challenge itself. The learners seek out challenges that align with their interests, but interest is not defined as a challenge.

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