Explain how marijuana challenges our understanding of addiction.
What will be an ideal response?
Marijuana produces mild withdrawal effects, and early ideas of addiction defined it in terms of physical withdrawal symptoms. It had been assumed that people continued taking marijuana due to psychological dependence, the feeling of desiring a drug. However, the reason for mild withdrawal symptoms of marijuana is because THC is fat soluble, so it leaves the body slowly, allowing the body to adjust to reduced levels of the drug. Today, most scientists view marijuana as addictive because other animals will self-administer marijuana.
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Explain and give examples of the processes of co-regulation and gatekeeping between parents and children
What will be an ideal response?
The cognitive strategy for managing stress that involves facing the stressor and working to overcome it is called:
A) repressive coping. B) reframing. C) rational coping. D) active coping.
Which of the following is true of motor neurons?
a. they have no direct contact with the outside world b. they carry messages from the brain to muscles to produce behaviors c. they remove wastes from the central nervous system d. they carry information toward the spinal cord and brain
As discussed in the text, there are two types of sympathetic magic. ____ is based on the principle of similarity, while ____ is based on the principle of contiguity.?
a. ?Contagious; homeopathic b. ?Unsympathetic; neosympathetic c. ?Homeopathic; contagious d. ?Sympathetic; homeopathic