The fact that fake surgeries and inert medications can cause placebo effects points to the idea that:
A. mental factors such as beliefs and expectations can influence pain perception
B. the medical community has the ingenuity to save money on health care
C. pain is just a physical experience
D. a person's doctor must be watched very closely
Answer: A
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a. Men tend to be concerned with whether mates will devote time and resources to a relationship. b. Men place more emphasis on the youth and physical attractiveness of their mates than women. c. Women place more emphasis on sexual fidelity than men do. d. Women are biologically driven to have multiple partners and casual sex.
Sherif's autokinetic research found that people conformed because they didn't want to look silly.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
A toddler in Freud's anal stage would also be at Erikson's
autonomy versus shame and doubt stage. oral stage. trust versus mistrust stage. object permanence stage.
Reginald, a teenager, gets into a lot of arguments with his parents. If these arguments are typical of normal parent-adolescent conflicts, they are most likely to be about
A. Reginald's delinquent behavior. B. what Reginald will do with his life. C. Reginald's everyday family life. D. whether Reginald uses drugs or alcohol.