Your best friend is going to have a medical procedure that might cause some pain during recovery. He is very concerned about how he will deal with this
Knowing what you do about how pain works, you would advise him that all but WHICH of the following are psychological aspects that can influence how pain is perceived?
a) anxiety
b) interpretation
c) attention
d) analgesia
ANS: D, Analgesia, which means "no pain," is a type of medication designed to reduce the experience of pain. It is not a psychological contributor but rather a physical one.
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a. longer. b. more frequent. c. more thoughtlike. d. paradoxical. e. both longer and more frequent.
A key component in chronic loneliness is
a. adjusting to a disruption in one's social network. b. early negative social behavior that leads to rejection by peers. c. lack of social groups. d. missing an absent intimate attachment figure.
Systematic desensitization is used to overcome __________ responses
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
As a child, Blaine was attacked by a goose and subsequently developed a severe fear of waterfowl. As he got older, the fear gradually faded until it was all but forgotten
Blaine is now in his early-twenties and recently went strolling through a park by the river where he came across a flock of geese. The geese gave him a stare and he felt slightly fearful, though not as afraid as he had been as a child. Blaine's fear response is an example of __________ a) stimulus discrimination. b) stimulus generalization. c) higher-order conditioning. d) spontaneous recovery.