Most healthy older adults have significant age-related declines in the ability to efficiently process information.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
False
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The fact that subjects sometimes report beneficial effects from a placebo treatment illustrates which of your text's unifying themes?
a. Our experience of the world is highly subjective. b. Psychology is empirical. c. Heredity and environment jointly influence behavior. d. Our behavior is shaped by our cultural heritage.
Psychoactive drugs have which type of effect on chemical neurotransmission?
a. They speed up metabolism and body movements. b. They depress or slow all body functions. c. They enhance, suppress, or interfere with it. d. They mimic the effect of other drugs on the nervous system.
Dr. Baxter conducts an experiment investigating the effectiveness of a new antacid on reducing stomach pain. He recruits 100 chronic sufferers of acid indigestion, and places them in four groups, each receiving a different amount of medication
The first group receives a sham pill because it contains none of the new antacid whatsoever. He is very surprised, however, when he finds that group one reports a statistically significant reduction in stomach pain after taking their pill. Which of the following best explains why the participants in group one showed a response to the pill, even when it had no active ingredient? a. The subject-expectancy effect b. Demand characteristics c. The placebo effect d. The observer-expectancy effect
Generally speaking, most young adults are heterosexual, engage frequently in ___________________
a) vaginal sex b) oral sex c) anal sex d) Both a and b