Regarding aspects of pain, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. Reminding system pain is carried by large nerve fibers.
b. Reminding system pain can cause agony long after an injury has healed.
c. Children who are born with a rare inherited insensitivity to pain repeatedly burn themselves, break bones, bite their tongues, and become ill without knowing it.
d. It is hard for people with a congenital pain insensitivity to have empathy for the pain of others.
ANSWER: a
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a. “Team” is another word for “group.” b. A team is basically a leader-centered group. c. A team is basically a self-managed (leaderless) group. d. Groups are teams, but teams are not groups. e. Teams are groups, but not all groups are teams.
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