Regarding pain tolerance, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. In general, we learn how to react to pain by observing family members' reactions to pain.
b. Pain avoidance is considered a stimulus motive.
c. Pain avoidance is episodic.
d. Pain prompts us to avoid or to eliminate sources of discomfort.
ANSWER: b
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a. acetylcholines. b. myelins. c. enkephalins. d. neurilemmas.
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a. a control group and random allocation of subjects to conditions b. a control group or a control condition and random allocation of subjects to groups c. random selection of subjects and random allocation of subjects to conditions d. random selection of subjects and each subject experiences every condition
A doctor has completed a three-year research project on patients with dissociative fugue. She has decided the next step is to run correlational studies on her data. The doctor is doing this to
A. determine if her sampling is representative. B. find trends and relationships among variables. C. find a cause-and-effect relationship. D. eliminate the possibility of experimenter bias.