Hayden used to become intoxicated after five drinks. Now he needs eight or nine to get the same effect. This is an example of __________.
A. a psychoactive substance abuse disorder
B. tolerance
C. withdrawal symptoms
D. an organic impairment
Answer: B
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a. need for drive reduction. b. need for homeostasis. c. stimulus motives. d. secondary drives. e. avoidance motivation.
You are trying to determine which of two terms is related to identical twins. You see "monozygotic" and "dizygotic.". You remember that a zygote is formed from one egg and one sperm and that "mono" means one and "di" means two. Identical twins would have to result from the same egg and the same sperm, thus one zygote. Using old information to derive the meaning of "monozygotic" and "dizygotic"
illustrates the use of a. selective comparison. b. selective assimilation. c. selective combination. d. selective encoding.
Jean Piaget hypothesized that cognitive development progressed
a. as a slow lifetime process. c. as a quantitative change process. b. as a result of heredity. d. as an orderly sequence of stages.
Brittany was interning at a rehabilitation facility for people who had experienced brain damage in automobile accidents. She noticed that some of her patients were usually quite cheerful, in spite of their injuries. It is most likely that Brittany's cheerful patients had a. experienced damage to their right hemispheres
b. experienced damage to their left hemispheres. c. damaged both frontal lobes. d. damaged their cingulate cortices.