Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)
1. Placebos given to reduce pain have been shown to increase activity in the insula and thalamus.
2. Some effects of placebos are due to classical conditioning.
3. A placebo can be mostly effective, even if you believe it will not work.
4. Somatic symptom disorders are considered psychological disorders.
5. The focus on psychosomatic disorders has shifted from concerns about mentally generated physical symptoms to excessive psychological concerns about explainable medical symptoms.
1. FALSE
2. TRUE
3. FALSE
4. TRUE
5. TRUE
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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
Your text describes an "Italian woman" who, after an attack of encephalitis, had difficulty remembering people or facts she knew before. She could, however, remember her life events and daily tasks. Her memory behavior reflects
a. intact semantic memory but defective episodic memory. b. intact procedural memory but defective episodic memory. c. intact episodic memory but defective semantic memory. d. intact episodic memory but defective procedural memory.
McGuire (1968) broke down the persuasion process into six stages. Why can one infer from this model that the likelihood of successful persuasion (i.e., behavior change) is extremely small by default?
a. Successful persuasion depends on factors such as personality and external conditions. b. Successful persuasion depends on whether or not cognitive responses have been generated during message processing. c. Message processing can occasionally bypass early stages. d. As each stage has a probability of successful completion, the probability of completing all stages is very low.
The emerging field of brain imagery in
cognitive neuroscience has developed methods, such as MRI, to examine ________. a) images of the living brain b) biopsies of the brain of a cadaver c) select biopsied portions of a brain d) acute time of death in stroke patients