What advice can you offer parents who want to reduce their newborn son's discomfort during circumcision?
A) Stimulate the Babinski reflex.
B) Play loud music to distract the baby.
C) Offer a nipple that delivers a sweet liquid while gently holding the baby.
D) Newborns have a low sensitivity to pain, so interventions are unnecessary.
C
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a. sensory adaptation b. perceptual invariance c. perceptual assimilation d. changing difference thresholds
The notion that there are limits to our powers of reasoning, judgment, and decision making is termed:
a) deductive reasoning. b) inductive reasoning. c) bounded rationality. d) expected utility.
A pink or red rash that can appear on the chest or breasts during sexual arousal is known as:
A) arousal flush. B) vasocongestion. C) sex flush. D) excitement flush.
As part of a research study, David Rosenhan and his colleagues (1973) faked schizophrenic symptoms to infiltrate mental hospitals. Once they had been admitted and no longer complained of any fake symptoms:
A. the pseudopatients absorbed their "sick" roles and developed additional symptoms in the course of their treatment. B. the clinicians sought and found evidence in their histories and behavior to confirm their admitting diagnoses. C. the pseudopatients were abandoned by the hospital's real patients. D. the clinicians quickly distinguished them from the real patients and released them from the hospital.