A doctor administers a placebo to Simon and shortly thereafter he feels better. This placebo effect occurs unconsciously and is due to a learning process termed:
A) operant conditioning.
B) classical conditioning.
C) habituation.
D) observational learning.
B) classical conditioning.
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a. People have a real lack of sensitivity that underlies the initial use of these terms. b. We have not come very far in the diagnosis of cognitive deficits. c. Labels that start out in a neutral way and are meant simply to describe something can pick up a negative and hurtful stigma. d. Psychopathology should be assessed in terms of severity of problems rather than just determining whether a person does or does not have an issue.