After extensive negative medical testing, Woody is still convinced that he has a brain tumor clouding his vision that may lead to his demise. He may be suffering from
a. catastrophizing disorder.
b. illness anxiety disorder.
c. somatodistinctive disorder.
d. hysterical disorders.
b
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Wernicke’s area is to ____ as Broca’s area is to ____
a. ?sensing touch; responding to touch b. ?seeing; hearing c. ?understanding speech; producing speech d. ?emotional processing; intellectual processing
?In contrast to insomnia, narcolepsy is ____
a. ?not treated with drugs b. ?rare c. ?a true sleep disorder d. ?more common in older men
The reason we do not perceive our eye blinks as "blackouts" might be that: a. blinks happen too quickly to be perceived by the cerebral cortex
b. during a blink, the visual cortex is deactivated. c. we learn to ignore these interruptions in visual input. d. during a blink, areas of the brain involved with consciousness become less active.
A weakness of the Schacter-Singer theory is: a. its inability to account for the results of the "swinging bridge" study
b. its over-emphasis on the role of specific physical states in the identification of subjective feelings. c. its failure to acknowledge a role for cognitive assessment of one's surroundings in determining a subjective feeling. d. its assumption that specific emotional states are rarely correlated with physical states.