What is beta-endorphin and what is its function?
What will be an ideal response?
Beta-endorphin is a natural opiate that has strong analgesic (pain relieving) properties. In an imminent life threatening struggle with a predator or competitor, pain from acute injury could debilitate a person and prevent that person from escaping the threat. Therefore, it is more adaptive for a person's survival to have systems that temporarily inhibit pain until the person is safe from imminent threat. Beta-endorphin serves this purpose.
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What is a psychological treatment approach that addresses ambivalence about giving up substance use and is used to prevent relapse?
a. psychodynamic therapy c. motivational enhancement therapy b. desensitization therapy d. shock therapy
Which of the following is true of collectivists?
A) They are more likely to conform to group judgments. B) They are unable to resist personal temptations to do their duty. C) They do not identify themselves in terms of their families or gender. D) They define themselves in terms of their personal identities.
The importance of socialization may have played a large role in the evolutionary specialization of an area of the occipital lobe for
a. facial recognition. b. language. c. motor functions. d. emotional expression.
A hypothesis is defined as a(n)
A. theory. B. empirical conclusion. C. research study. D. educated guess.