The placebo effect is:

a. purely psychological in origin.
b. purely physiological in origin.
c. both psychological and physiological in origin.
d. not real.


C

Psychology

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a. Twins and adopted children b. Comparisons among cultures c. Changes from one generation to the next d. The correlation between IQ scores and brain volume

Psychology

The two main distinguishing ideas in the psychodynamic model are that ____

a. disorders result from childhood experiences and anxieties operate unconsciously b. the causes of disorders are largely conscious and culture determines the expression of symptoms of disorders c. diathesis is a predisposition to develop an illness and stress is an environmental factor that triggers the illness d. abnormalities are inherited and symptoms start with biology

Psychology

Our ability to experience so many different tastes, despite the limited number of taste sensations, demonstrates the interplay between our senses of taste and

A) hearing. B) smell. C) touch. D) vision.

Psychology

Ingrid has had a few interactions with Chinese students at her college and thinks that they are "hard to read" because they do not use facial expressions "clearly" as compared to Americans she interacts with. Such experiences illustrate

a. women's inability to decode emotions. b. women's inability to encode emotions. c. differences in display rules. d. the use of emblems.

Psychology