After vowing to walk each afternoon after work rather than watching TV, you do walk each afternoon for two weeks but soon revert back to watching TV because of

a. a long-standing habit.
b. the lack of high expectations.
c. the evaluation of your actions by others.
d. chance conditioning.

ANSWER: a

Psychology

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Psychology

A __________ is a small, same-sex group of peers while a __________ is a large, mixed-sex group of peers

a. cohort; crowd b. clique; crowd c. cohort; clique d. crowd; clique

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