If You Just Declined an Invitation to Go Out with Friends

question 46

Multiple Choice

If you just declined an invitation to go out with friends so that you can study and then another friend offers you a beer, according to research in this chapter, what can you do to exert some self-control and stick with your study plan?

• A) Give up.There's nothing you can do now; you've already seen the beer.
• B) Take a break and collect yourself.You can resist the temptation.
• C) Promise yourself you'll only have one.It can't affect studying that much.
• D) Have a cookie instead.You deserve some treat.

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Definitions:

Vertebra

One of the small bones forming the backbone, providing support and protecting the spinal cord.

Transverse Processes

Projections on vertebrae where muscles and ligaments attach, part of the bone's anatomy.

Spinous Processes

Bony projections off the back of each vertebra that can be felt through the skin and serve for muscle and ligament attachment.

Winglike Side Projections

Structural or anatomical parts extending from the side of an object or body, resembling the wings of a bird or insect in shape or function.