Temporary insomnia is most often caused by
a. the use of non-prescription sleeping pills.
b. worry, stress, and excitement.
c. the use of prescribed sedatives.
d. eating starchy foods before going to bed.
ANSWER: b
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Hazel got a puppy. She knows that puppies are animals. Her next-door neighbor has a cat. Hazel's mother tells her that both puppies and cats are animals. As a result, Hazel changes her scheme of animals to include cats. Changing a scheme to incorporate new information is called
a. assimilation. b. reaction range. c. augmentation. d. accommodation.
Which of the following is NOT true regarding the relationship between emotional pain and physical pain?
a. They are associated with the same brain structures. b. As one type of pain increases, the body becomes less sensitive to the other type of pain. c. Social support reduces an individual’s sensitivity to physical pain. d. Linguistically, they are described using similar phrases.
The use of electroconvulsive shock declined in the 1950s because ____.
A. legal concerns arose with its use as a therapy B. a new theory of depression called the treatment into question C. antidepressant drugs became available D. a federal report concluded that it was almost never effective
Results from a recent follow-up study of behavior problems in Thai and U.S. cultures suggest that
a) U.S. children are referred to clinics more often for internalizing problems than externalizing problems. b) Thai children exhibit more externalizing behaviors. c) internalizing and externalizing behaviors are fairly comparable across cultures, but specific behaviors within these domains are not. d) behaviors should not be separated into internalizing and externalizing behaviors because a behavior that is viewed in one culture as internalizing may not be viewed the same way in a different culture.