Which phrase best completes the idea that values are developed through experiences both personal and social?

• A. lifetime experiences and social interactions
• B. genetic predispositions
• C. random events
• D. legal codes

Answer: (A)

The main idea here is that values are formed through a mix of personal experiences and interactions with others. When you go through life, your own successes, challenges, and reflections teach you what matters to you. At the same time, the people and groups around you—family, friends, peers, culture, and community—convey norms, expectations, and meanings that shape what you come to value. Together, lifetime experiences and social interactions create a durable set of beliefs about what is important, guiding how you act and decide.

Genetic predispositions don’t establish values themselves; they influence traits like temperament but not the internalized judgments about what’s valuable. Random events might affect mood or direction for a time, but they don’t systematically build a person’s value system. Legal codes provide rules to follow, but values come from internalized beliefs formed through lived experience and social meaning, not from laws alone.