With respect to thinking, when students first start college they question personal and social values believe in the existence of clear and perfect truths carefully consider many opposing ideas become committed to a set of personal values

a punishment or the threat of punishment used to enforce conformity. enforcement of norms or shared rules of conduct that tell people how to act in specific situations. social control. not everyone internalizes all of society's norms, and some people must be motivated by self-fulfillment.

using the scientific method.