You are about to undergo a painful medical procedure. Which of the following would increase your subjective feelings of pain?

a. unpleasant emotions, such as fear
b. using distraction
c. having some control over the pain stimulus
d. being fully informed about the procedure


A

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Stemming from the work of Pinel and Tuke, moral management treatment __________.

A. focused on the physiological problems that mental patients supposedly had, rather than their mental state B. focused on the symptoms that mental patients had, rather than on their moral character C. focused on warehousing and punishing mental patients, so that they would choose to become well D. focused on the moral and spiritual development of mental patients, rather than on their disorder

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By focusing on feelings when counseling a friend, you can encourage the outpouring of emotion that is the basis for

a. illumination. b. repression. c. catharsis. d. depression.

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The preoperational period in Piaget's theory occurs between the ages of ______

a. 0-2 years of age c. 7-11 years of age b. 2-7 years of age d. 11-16 years of age

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According to Erikson, failure to achieve generativity results in

intermittent feelings of loneliness. stagnation and personal impoverishment. childlessness and a career orientation. difficulties in mate selection or friendship.

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