According to the Authors of Your Text, Why Do Young

question 72

Multiple Choice

According to the authors of your text, why do young people often fail to use condoms every time they have sex?

• A) They would feel like hypocrites were they to use condoms.
• B) Condoms are inconvenient, unromantic, and remind people of disease and death.
• C) Because most sex is spontaneous, condoms are seldom available.
• D) People do not think of birth control when they are sexually aroused.

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Definitions:

Actual Recognizing

The process of accurately identifying previously encountered objects, situations, or individuals.

Decay Theory

A theory of forgetting suggesting that memories fade over time as a result of mere passage of time, without any active interference.

Sensory Memory

The shortest-term element of memory that allows us to retain impressions of sensory information after the original stimuli have ended.

Short-term Memory

A cognitive system that temporarily holds a limited amount of information in awareness for a short period of time, typically seconds to minutes.