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Tirant22

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on: Jun 22, 2018
Which of the following is NOT identified by your authors as being a factor that is associated with an increased likelihood of drinking among teenagers?
 
  a. having parents who have an occasional drink on holidays
  b. having parents who drink as an important part of their social lives
  c. having parents who are relatively uninvolved in their lives
  d. having parents who set unreasonable or arbitrary standards for their teens

Question 2

What is the primary reason why people's reaction times slow down as they get older?
 
  a. Because older adults necessarily have more neurofibrillary tangles in their brains, and these tangles interfere with the cognitive processing of various tasks.
  b. Because older adults have a decreased ability to distinguish important from unimportant information, and thus they need more time to process a given situation.
  c. Because older adults have fewer healthy neurons, and thus neural messages take longer to process in the brain.
  d. Because older adults take longer to decide that they need to respond to a given situation.


vkodali

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Reply #1 on: Jun 22, 2018
Answer to Question 1

a

Answer to Question 2

d


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