A decrease in the effectiveness of a drug that is administered repeatedly is:

a. Tolerance
b. A predictor of addiction
c. Addictiveness
d. Withdrawal


Answer: a. Tolerance

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a. hook-up b. friends with benefits c. group sex d. random dating

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The essence of a lack of ego strength (Factor C), as stated in your text, involves:

a. an inability to control one's impulses and to deal realistically with problems b. a high tolerance for anxiety c. an opposition to the psychoanalytic concept of ego strength d. the control of irrational impulse in service to the ego in order to remain at ease in social settings

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Melissa Farley and her colleagues reported two-thirds of the prostitutes they interviewed had

A) abusive fathers. B) grown up with a lot of siblings. C) very creative personalities. D) posttraumatic stress disorder.

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Phonotactics refers to:

A. the combination of consonants and vowels into syllables. B. the variation across languages in terms of sound inventories. C. language specific constraints on the sequencing of sounds. D. the way speech sounds are used to form new words.

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