Marsha has learned that her tolerance for pain is increased dramatically when she focuses her awareness onto a particular word that she repeats over and over whenever she has to undergo a painful medical procedure. Marsha is using to help control her experience of pain
a. meditation
b. biofeedback c. distraction
d. changing thoughts
e. creating a bottleneck
e
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What evidence do some psychologists cite to support the idea that humans have six "basic" emotions? a. Ancient civilizations named six of the days of the week after one of these emotions. b. Each of the six emotions depends on a different neurotransmitter
c. Six facial expressions of emotion are recognizable throughout the world. d. Certain genetic mutations cause the loss of just one of these emotions.
Creativity is strongly linked to ________________ thinking, which refers to the ability to think in novel and unusual directions
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
Suppose that, at your 60th high school reunion, you gather together the senior portraits and relate your classmates' facial expressions to their mortality rates. Based on the study of baseball players, what would you expect to find?
a. Facial expressions in the portraits were unrelated to mortality rates. b. Students with big smiles and those with half smiles lived longer than those who did not smile at all, but those with big and half smiles had similar lifespans. c. Students who frowned had very short lifespans while those who smiled even a little had average life spans. d. Students with big smiles had the longest lifespans, followed by those with partial smiles, and then by those with no smiles.
An observer divides an observation period into a number of consecutive time periods, and then records whether the target behavior occurred during each period. This is called:
a. product recording b. interval recording c. continuous recording d. time sample recording