Maya is in labor and her obstetrician decides to use a local anesthetic to help her cope with the pain. The obstetrician injects an anesthetic into her Alcock's canal and her external genitals become numb. The obstetrician has most likely used a(n) _____
A) epidural block
B) pudendal block
C) spinal block
D) femoral nerve block
B
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Regarding the New York Longitudinal Study of temperament, which of the following statements is FALSE? a. Investigators found that about 65 percent of children could be classified into one of the temperament groups. b. The majority of children, 40 percent, were classified as easy children. c. The least common classification assigned to children was "difficult," with 10 percent of children
falling in thiscategory. d. The distinct types of temperament observed in infancy predict later differences in adjustment, with easy infants showing better adjustment. e. The study demonstrated that basic temperament cannot be changed.
The theory that proposes that intelligence comes from a distributed and integrated network of neurons in the parietal and frontal lobes of the brain is called a. parieto-frontal integration theory
b. parietal distribution theory. c. lobe integration network theory. d. neuron network distribution theory.
Gabe is trying to get his dog, Trixie, to "sit up." He starts rewarding her first when she lies down. Then he rewards her when she is sitting on her backside. And finally he rewards her only when she sits up with her paws off the ground. Gabe has trained Trixie to "sit up" by using ____.?
a. ?shaping b. ?secondary reinforcement c. ?backward conditioning d. ?stimulus discrimination
__________ thinking can be a factor in both "run-of-the-mill" depression and major depression
a. Grandiose c. Delusional b. Suicidal d. Psychotic