Rehab Psychology

Question 1

What was the evidence doctors used to support the placebo effect (2 studies)

Answer 1

1. Doctors successfully eliminated warts by painting them with brightly coloured, inert dye and pricing patients the warts would be gone with colour wore off (Talbot, 2000)
2. Patients suffering pain after wisdom tooth extraction got just as much relief from a fake application of ultrasound as from a real one, so long as both patients and therapists thought the machine was on. (Talbot, 2000)

Question 2

The process of threaten theory

Answer 2

placebos cause the brain to release endogenous opioids, or endorphins, that reduce pain

Question 3

New England Journal of Medicine - Knee Surgery vs. Sham surgery

Answer 3

The placebo group performed/results were just as good as the real surgery even 2 years

Question 4

What were Moseley’s findings?

Answer 4

Patients feel less pain and can function better because of the the placebo effect no the surgery.

Question 5

Injury Prediction-explain stress response

Answer 5

there’s two components: you have cognitive appraisal (the demands of the situation exceed ones resource capabilities) and physical/attentional demands (where we get tunnel vision, and physiological changes) and they influence each other.

Question 6

What’s a moderator variable

Answer 6

a quantitive variable that affects the nature, the direction or the strength of a relation between an independent or predictor variable and a dependent variable