Drugs that produce a biological or psychological dependence in users, leading to increasingly powerful cravings for them, are known as

a) illegal drugs.
b) recreational use.
c) addictive drugs.
d) prescription drugs.


c

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Jason does not complete his chores on time, despite his mother’s repeated requests for him to do so. As a result, his mother takes away his Playstation and Wii for a month. Jason’s mother is hoping to change his behavior through the use of ____.?

a. ?learned helplessness b. ?penalty c. ?negative reinforcement d. ?avoidance conditioning

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What do Albert Bandura, Wolfgang Kohler, and Edward Tolman all have in common?

a. ?They are all strong advocates of the principals involved in operant conditioning. b. ?They all believe strongly in the views of strict behaviorism. c. ?They all have shown that latent learning is not a valid concept. d. ?They all have conducted research demonstrating the importance to cognition in learning.

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A preschooler who believes the word cow is a big word and the word caterpillar is a small word suggests that

a. he has dyslexia and is unable to read the two words. b. he is underextending the meanings of the two words because he cannot read yet. c. he lacks the metalinguistic awareness required to realize that the length of a word is not necessarily associated with the size of its referent. d. preschoolers are not very good at comprehension monitoring.

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Each of these is an individual competency associated with resilience EXCEPT ______.

A. religiosity. B. coping skills. C. easy temperament. D. close relationships with parents.

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