Psychology Prompt Part A
Describe how the following concepts might relate to the development and continuation of a vaping habit in a high
school student.
.
Stimulant
Availability heuristic
Negative reinforcement
Punishment
.
Part B
Describe how the following psychological concepts might relate to the student's attempts to quit vaping.
• Withdrawal
• Psychological dependence
• Overconfidence

Students must establish that Annabelle’s decision-making processes or her choices about college, or

both, are influenced by information that comes most readily to mind (e.g., “pops into her mind,” “first

thing she thinks of,” “automatically,” “immediately”).

Notes

• The example must include a cognitive component.

• The emphasis must be on the “immediacy” of the solution, not why it comes to mind. Recency,

vividness, or distinctiveness, without a reference to “immediacy,” does not score.

Examples

Score

“Annabelle hears an ad for State U. When it’s time to decide on a college, State U will be the first

one she thinks of.”

Do not score

“She went there because her brother went there.”

find the magnitude of the trig term  

csc

(

x

)

−

1

by taking the absolute value of the coefficient.

1

find the lower bound of the range.

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y

=

−

2

find the upper bound of the range.

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y

=

0

the range is  

y

≤

−

2

or  

y

≥

0

.

(

−

∞

,

−

2

]

∪

[

0

,

∞

)

{

y

|

y

≤

−

2

,

y

≥

0

}

step-by-step explanation: