While waiting for her school bus to arrive one winter morning, Sandy was so cold she realized her feet and hands actually hurt. Rather than concentrate on the cold, Sandy pictured herself on a warm tropical island. She concentrated on the feel of the sand under her feet and the warmth of the sun on her face. Which of the following pain control strategies was Sandy using?
A. associative stratgies
B. dissociative stratgies
C. informational control
D. sensory stratgies
B. dissociative stratgies
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b. Ill-behaved children provoke their parents to spank them. c. Certain genes lead to ill-behaved children and short-tempered parents. d. We can draw none of these conclusions.
____, the most radically mechanistic of the British empiricists, claimed that the mind is a machine and that there is no freedom of the will, believing instead that the mind is totally a passive entity and all thought can be analyzed in terms of sensations.?
a. John Stuart Mill? b. ?David Hume c. ?John Locke d. ?James Mill e. ?George Berkeley
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A) incubator B) model C) shaper D) prototype
Research into the effectiveness of various therapies have found
a. psychological improvement is not measurable. b. behavioral therapies cannot really be measured for improvement. c. psychodynamic therapies no longer work. d. diverse approaches do not differ that much in effectiveness.