Aaron has been taking a mild amphetamine for the past four months to help him cope with being a full-time student while holding down a full-time job. Now that his classes have ended, he wants to stop taking the amphetamine, but each time he tries to skip the medication, he starts sweating and twitching. It appears that Aaron has
a. developed a drug tolerance for amphetamines.
b. become amphetamine intolerant.
c. developed a physical dependence for amphetamines.
d. habituated to the effects of amphetamines.
C
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a. inborn biological forces that motivate behavior. b. experiences that motivate behavior. c. inborn biological forces that inhibit behavior. d. experiences that inhibit behavior.
Decentration, reversibility and subjective moral judgments are all indicators of the _______ _______ stage of cognitive development
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Dr. Newman asks people to recall the name of their kindergarten teacher. Surprisingly, the majority of people correctly do this and comment, "Gee whiz, I haven't thought about that old bat [or old coot] in years!"
Their ability to do so is a severe problem for which theory of forgetting? a) interference theory b) decay c) encoding failure d) retroactive interference
Marcus, age 12, wears the same clothes and hairstyle as his best friends at school. According to Albert Bandura, Marcus is displaying
A) operant conditioning. B) behavior modification. C) classical conditioning. D) observational learning.