Kareem started smoking a year ago in the seventh grade. He knows that smoking is unhealthy, but he thinks it makes him look kind of cool. Researchers have found that once adolescents try smoking, drinking, drug use, or early sexual activity, their previous estimates of the risks __________.

A. become much more accurate
B. decrease
C. become irrelevant
D. increase


Answer: B

Psychology

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In non-Western cultures, trance and possession are

A. extremely rare. B. never considered a disorder. C. the most common forms of dissociative disorders. D. the rarest forms of dissociative disorders.

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Verbal information is processed in a short-term memory buffer referred to as the __________________

a. auditory store c. acoustic processor b. auditory memory d. phonological loop

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Taking on adult roles through play is an activity primarily seen in the United States and NOT typically observed in other societies.

Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

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