In other research with Paul Rozin, Carol Nemeroff found that adolescents' and young adults' beliefs about sexually transmitted disease were often ______________ , displaying the same tendency towards using ______________ reasoning in place of the logic of formal- operational reasoning as a source of causal explanations for infection and personal vulnerability.

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The passage states that adolescents and young adults tend to use "magical reasoning" in their beliefs about sexually transmitted diseases, which suggests that their beliefs are illogical. Additionally, the passage states that this is a "source of causal explanations," which suggests that they are not using concrete-operational reasoning, but rather something more primitive. Therefore, option B is the best answer.

In Other Research with Paul Rozin, Carol Nemeroff Found That