Tablets, Abacuses, and Manual Tables

question 25

Multiple Choice

Tablets, abacuses, and manual tables

• A) are no longer used, because of the proliferation of calculators and computers.
• B) are examples of aids to manual calculating.
• C) were developed in Western Europe in the late Middle Ages.
• D) replaced Hindu-Arabic numerals as the preferred way to do calculations.
• E) All of the above.

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Definitions:

Internal Drive State

The psychological or physiological need that motivates an organism to engage in a particular behavior.

Pavlovian Conditioning

A learning process where an originally neutral stimulus becomes associated with a specific physiological or emotional response after being paired with a stimulus that naturally evokes that response.

Primary Drives

are innate biological needs (e.g., hunger, thirst, sleep) that motivate behavior essential for survival.

Hunger

A physiological state that motivates an organism to seek food for energy.