Question

Your mother must always have an early morning cup of coffee. She usually has several more cups throughout the day. If she misses her daily doses of coffee, she gets a headache. The fact that your mother experiences headaches when she discontinues the use of caffeine is an example of ______.

Answer 1

Answer:

withdrawal symptoms

Explanation:

When one person consumes a substance (such as alcohol, drugs or caffeine) in a regular basis, their body adjusts to this substance and when they stop taking it, they have unpleasant physical and mental effects because they already had the habit of consuming the substance. This effects are called withdrawal symptoms.

In the question, your mother has a daily cup of coffee and she even has more cups of coffee through a day. When she misses her daily doses of caffeine she gets an unpleasant symptom which would be the headache. Therefore, this is an example of withdrawal symptoms.