Which of the following situations best illustrates the placebo effect?
a) You sleep because you are tired.
b) You throw up after eating bad meat.
c) You have surgery to repair a defective heart valve.
d) You drink a nonalcoholic drink and become "intoxicated" because you think it contains alcohol.
d
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The social learning perspective assumes that
a. there are universal stages in the development of personality. b. personality is best described in terms of trait dimensions. c. personality traits have a strong genetic basis. d. personality development is highly influenced by environmental experience.
Which of the following is characterized by extreme sympathetic nervous system arousal?
a. locked-in syndrome b. pure autonomic failure c. panic attack d. prosopagnosia
In their experiments on the brain and perceptual features, Blakemore, Cooper, Grobstein and Chow found that the kittens raised in the vertically-striped rooms
a. bumped into chair legs. b. missed when they tried to jump to horizontal surfaces. c. had difficulty walking in a straight line. d. experienced no difficulty in any visual task since the eyes easily adapt.
The dictator of a small country has been removed and a new government is forming. Among the first task for the new country is the creation of the country's laws. Instead of the above scenario, the new leadership re-writes the rules so that the ethnic minorities in the country no longer have the right to vote. They also remove any restrictions against discriminatory practices, which will allow employers and landlords to refuse jobs and housing to members of minorities. This scenario describes:
A. the conflict paradigm. B. the consensus paradigm. C. the pluralist paradigm. D. the Marxist paradigm.