Describe biofeedback, progressive relaxation, and meditation as techniques to relax
What will be an ideal response?
Biofeedback refers to voluntarily learning to control physiological responses, such as muscle activity, blood pressure, or temperature, by recording and displaying these responses
Progressive relaxation involves practicing tensing and relaxing the major muscle groups of the body until you are able to relax any groups of muscles at will.
Transcendental meditation (TM) involves assuming a comfortable position, closing your eyes, and repeating a sound or concentrating on your breathing so that you clear your head of all thoughts, worrisome and otherwise.
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false
According to a review of the empirical evidence for bias in clinical judgment (Garb, 1997),
a. women patients are judged to be more dysfunctional than men patients. b. even when presenting the same constellation of symptoms, men are more likely to be diagnosed as antisocial and women are more likely to be diagnosed as histrionic. c. both of the above d. neither of the above
Which of the following conditions must be met in order for differences among an individual's
scores on various tests comprising an aptitude battery to be interpretable? A) The reliabilities of the difference scores must be high. B) The score profile must be as flat as possible. C) The percentile bands representing scores on various tests must show some overlap. D) The correlations among the tests must be high.
Hypertension is
A) stress. B) caused by excitement. C) chronic high blood pressure. D) chronic low blood pressure. E) a sphygmomanometer.