In a study of the effectiveness of cognitive therapy on anxiety, fifty anxious patients are divided into two groups. One group gets cognitive therapy, the other a fake kind of therapy that should have no benefit. However, the patients can tell that the second form of treatment is a fake. The study is weak because ____
a. its placebo condition did not control for expectancy
b. it did not include an independent variable
c. it confuses experimental designs with correlational designs
d. it did not have a placebo condition
A
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Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
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a. will create a distraction for the doctor, helping him to minimize pain. b. is an application of the lock and key theory of pain. c. is an application of the counterirritation method for controlling pain. d. will allow Becky to regulate and control the painful stimulus, so she will suffer less.
Generating many possible solutions is a characteristic of
a. divergent thinking. c. convergent thinking. b. deductive reasoning. d. inductive reasoning.
Following injury, which of the glia may actually inhibit neural regrowth by forming scar tissue?
a. astrocytes b. oligodendrocytes c. Schwann cells d. microglia