Responding to a substance, such as a sugar pill or a saline injection, as if it were the real drug is referred to as

a. the placebo effect.
b. an anthropomorphic error.
c. the somatization variable.
d. a psychosomatic complication.


A

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a. underextension. b. referential language style. c. expressive language style. d. overextension.

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When Edward Titchener brought Wundt's psychology to the United States, his method for examining conscious mental life involved the use of the experimental technique known as

a. structuralism. b. introspection. c. functionalism. d. psychoanalysis.

Psychology

When Pavlov placed food in the mouths of canine subjects, they began to salivate. The salivation was a(n)

a. unconditioned response. b. unconditioned stimulus. c. conditioned response. d. conditioned stimulus. e. discriminative stimulus.

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Step 4 in Underhill's stages of mystical experiences involves a fuller turn inward, back toward separateness called ________

a. dark night of the soul b. alienation c. disassociation d. consolidation

Psychology