When you hear Uncle Rico dismissing any placebo effect of pain relief as "all in the mind," you can set him straight by ______.
A. stating that placebos activate the same brain areas as opiates
B. arguing that placebo pain relief is just the same as hypnotic pain relief
C. arguing that hypnosis can block placebo pain relief
D. arguing that placebo pain relief is a physical process that can be abolished with an endorphin blocker
Answer: A
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A. inpatient hospitalization has been increasing due to the failure to provide adequate care in the community B. inpatient hospitalization has continued to decrease, despite an increase in resulting problems C. inpatient hospitalization has continued to decrease, and communities have stepped up their response to improve outpatient care D. inpatient hospitalization has been increasing due to increasing numbers of mentally ill patients
Which of the following is the best support for the possible addictive nature of marijuana?
A. Most chronic users experience noticeable withdrawal symptoms when drug use stops. B. Tolerance develops to the euphoric effects fairly rapidly. C. Marijuana is self-administered by both humans and lower primates. D. Marijuana causes physiological dependence.
Animal trainers using operant conditioning techniques to slowly condition a new behavior by reinforcing successive approximations of the new desired behavior are engaged in ____.
c. Shaping
Which of the following is a common criticism against the current DSM system?
a. Listing specific diagnostic criteria makes the DSM less reliable than using more general criteria. b. It fails to address milder impairments with a diagnostic label. c. It categorizes mental illness to the exclusion of positive mental health. d. The number of possible diagnostic categories has significantly decreased from that of the previous editions.