Which of the following statements is true of the placebo effect?
A) ?It is more likely to occur following a period of treatment with an active drug.
B) ?It is achieved by administering an emetic to a patient.
C) ?It demonstrates how different CSs in a compound stimuli receive different associative values.
D) ?It illustrates the functioning of operant conditioning.
A
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If a researcher reported for a correlated-groups t test that t(12) = 3.66, p < .01, how many subjects were there in the study?
a. 12 b. 14 c. 13 d. 11
When a young boy in preschool received a puppy for his birthday, his teacher asked him if the puppy was a boy or a girl; he looked at me in a confused way and said, "Dogs are boys and cats are girls." He was in the process of building his schemas of boy-things and girl-things. This is illustrative of which of the following concepts.
a) Assimilation b) Accommodation c) Wisdom d) Self-determinism
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. For stigmatized people, the chief problem is in gaining social acceptance. 2. Mental health has no relationship to physical health. 3. Stigma can lead to physical illness because experiencing stigma elicits a stress response. 4. Self-promotion attempts usually fail because the person is too focused on their stigma.
The current view of the localization vs. holistic theory of the brain is that:
A) it is presently impossible to make an intelligent conclusion as there are vast individual differences in the way brains function B) no single function is isolated C) the brain is divided into well-defined areas which carry out specific functions D) some mental attributes are localized but many functions are distributed E) none of the above