Unusual occurrences that have a major impact on an individual's life and are usually not applicable to many people are called

What will be an ideal response?


non-normative life events

Psychology

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You are watching a video of a young man skateboarding and he suddenly trips and lands hard on the ground.  You cringe at the sight of him hitting the pavement. Your ________ allowed you to experience empathy with his experience.

A. thalamus B. glial cells C. mirror neurons D. GABA neurons

Psychology

Amelia is a general physician. One of her patients claimed to be suffering from constant stomach aches. After running some tests, Amelia concludes that the patient is not suffering from any medical disorder. However, the patient insisted that she has stomach cancer. The patient was then made to participate in an experiment where she was given sugar pills and was told that it was a new medicine

for treating cancer. Some other participants in the experiment were also given sugar pills. This best exemplifies _____. A) a volunteer bias B) a placebo C) a nocebo D) debriefing

Psychology

One serious side-effect of Chlorpromazine is involuntary movements of the tongue, jaw, mouth, and face, a possibly permanent condition. This condition is called:

a. general paresis b. phlebotomy c. tardive dyskinesia d. echopraxia

Psychology

In the blocking design, the CS2 that was introduced in Conditioning Phase 2 failed to acquire a CR because it did not evoke a(n)

a. temporal contiguity.

b. appetitive stimulus.

c. reinforcer.

d. behavioral discrepancy.

e. response-reinforcer event.

Psychology