According to Piaget, adolescents are motivated to understand their world because doing so

A. makes them look grown up to their parents.
B. is biologically adaptive.
C. makes them look "cool" to their friends.
D. is necessary for making friends and starting romances.


Answer: B

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The tension-reduction model of alcoholism __________.

A. does not explain why some excessive drinkers are able to maintain control over their drinking, while others are not B. suggests that alcoholism is environmentally determined C. proposes that alcoholism is an incurable disease D. provides an explanation for the role that personality traits play in the development of alcohol abuse

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The point of Searle's Chinese room problem was to show that ____.?

a. ?Chinese is a difficult language to learn b. ?machines and humans use the same thinking strategies c. ?machines can and do display "thinking" d. ?machines can pass the Turing test and still not be "thinking" e. ?None of the choices are correct.

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The case of Little Albert demonstrated that:

A. emotional problems may develop through conditioning B. manifest content is related to latent content C. serotonin may play a role in fear D. unconscious conflicts can lead to emotional problems

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Which type of memory would be used to answer this multiple choice question?

a. implicit b. explicit c. episodic d. contextual

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