Patients’ negative expectations about the outcome of a surgical procedure can increase their postoperative experience of pain. This best illustrate the importance of:

Related Mcqs:

1. The organizational principles identified by Gestalt psychologists best illustrate the importance of:

   A. perceptual constancy
   B. perceptual adaptation
   C. visual capture
   D. top-down processing

2. People are more likely to perceive a figure and ground illustration as reversible if they are told it is reversible. This best illustrate the importance of:

   A. Retinal disparity
   B. Visual capture
   C. Perceptual constancy
   D. Top-down processing

3. Although Sue Yen sees her chemistry professor several times a week, she didn’t recognize the professor when she saw her in the grocery store. This best illustrate the importance of:

   A. Context effects
   B. Perceptual adaptation
   C. Proximity
   D. Visual capture

4. The horizon Moon appears to shrink in size if it is viewed through a narrow tube that eliminates the perception of distance cues. The best illustrate the importance of:

   A. Context effects
   B. Relative clarity
   C. Perceptual adaptation
   D. Visual capture

5. The organizational principles identified by Gestalt psychologists best illustrate the importance of:

   A. perceptual constancy
   B. perceptual adaptation
   C. visual capture
   D. top-down processing

6. The gate control theory of pain perception presumes that pain signals are blocked by ____________?

   A. non-myelinated neurons
   B. myelinated neurons
   C. efferent neurons
   D. afferent neurons

7. The gate-control theory of pain proposes that pain actually occurs _________________?

   A. at the receptor cite
   B. only in the external receptors
   C. in the brain
   D. only under intense stimulus levels

8. Endorphin agonists are likely to ___________ one’s immediate pain and endorphin antagonists are likely to ___________ one’s immediate pain:

   A. increase; increase
   B. decrease; increase
   C. decrease; decrease
   D. eliminate; eliminate

9. Which TWO of the following are true of the learning set procedure?
   1:The animals learns to focus on classes of cues that are inaccurate predictors of reward
   2:In the win-stay, lose-shift strategy, the animal learns to persist with a choice that yields food, but shift to the other object if it does not
   3:In the learning-set procedure, all stimuli and associations have equal effect on the animal’s behaviour
   4:The occurrence of reward can be regarded as a stimulus that can enter into associations or acquire discriminative control over an instrumental action

   A. 1 & 2
   B. 2 & 3
   C. 1 & 3
   D. 2 & 4

10. Surgical destruction of brain tissue is called a (n):

    A. MRI
    B. EEG
    C. synapse
    D. lesion