Valid and reliable measures of pain are important to health psychologists primarily because
A) ?such measurements permit accurate evaluation of various pain therapy programs.
B) ?self-reports are more useful than physiological measures.
C) ?pain is a product of both physiological and emotional factors.
D) ?behavioral assessments are more reliable and valid.
A
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