Alan injures his back severely. When he goes to the doctor, the doctor gives him a choice as to whether he thinks he needs an opioid drug. Briefly describe the benefits and risks Alan faces if gets this prescription.
What will be an ideal response?
Answers will vary. A sample answer follows. If Alan gets the prescription, the benefit is that he will get pain relief because opioids reduce pain just as the body's endorphins so. However, the risk is that Alan runs a high risk of becoming addicted to the opioid because the way the drug makes people feel good is addictive. For this reason, there is a severe epidemic of opiate abuse in this country.
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When an organism responds to a specific conditioned stimulus and doesn't respond to another stimulus that is similar to the conditioned stimulus, it is referred to as
a. stimulus generalization. b. stimulus discrimination. c. extinction. d. spontaneous recovery.
A group of 100 female undergraduate students are surveyed. More than half say they have been victims of sexual aggression. The men who coerced them into intercourse did so without planning to do so and manipulated them by using alcohol and interpreted their protests of sexual advances as meaning "go ahead." What, if any, aspect of this group's survey results is unusual?
a. It is unusual for most acts of rape to be unplanned. b. It is unusual for one-half of undergraduate females to report being victims of sexual aggression. c. It is unusual for men who coerce sex to use alcohol. d. It is unusual for men who coerce sex to interpret protests as insincere.
Which statement summarizing research on whether training working memory skills improves cognitive performance on non–memory-related tasks is TRUE?
A) Over 50 years of research has clearly demonstrated that training working memory skills increases overall cognitive performance. B) Training working memory skills has not been shown to increase cognitive performance on non–memory-related tasks. C) More research is needed to determine if enhancing working memory leads to increased cognitive performance on non–memory-related tasks. D) Efforts to study this research question have been thwarted by the fact that working memory skills cannot be improved with training.
Which of the following is true of children with autism?
a. they account for about 20% of all children in the U.S. b. about 50% are boys and 50% are girls c. about 80% are girls d. about 80% are boys