A person suffering from anxiety predicts that he will make a fool of himself at a social gathering; and, in fact, he does. A psychologist predicts that students in his morning class will outperform those in his afternoon class and, in fact, they do. What do the anxious person and the psychologist have in common? They both
a. are engaged in the Barnum effect.
b. produced a self-fulfilling prophecy.
c. are engaged in the placebo effect.
d. possess a precognition type of ESP.
B
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a. neurological defects. b. exposure to deviant communication patterns. c. a specific recessive gene. d. traumatic childhood experiences.
Which of the following statements is true of culture?
a) It was created by groups to solve complex problems of living and social life, enabling them to survive more functionally and effectively. b) It is not possible to access the mental models of culture that influence a person's way of thinking, feeling, and behaving. c) It does not have a strong cognitive component like evolution of language. d) It only refers to the individual mental representations of one's habits.
Collins has been complaining of a variety of vague, chronic pains that run all throughout his body as well as blurry vision. After many doctor visits and medical tests, there is still no known physical cause for the symptoms that Collins has been experiencing. Collins is most likely to be diagnosed with ____
a. ?conversion disorder b. ?somatic symptom disorder c. ?hypochondriasis d. ?somatoform pain disorder
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a. macrophages c. red blood corpuscles b. natural killer cells d. electrolytes