The Role of Pain Is to Serve as a Warning

question 120

True/False

The role of pain is to serve as a warning and protection mechanism.

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Definitions:

Inattentional Blindness

A psychological lack of attention wherein an individual fails to perceive an unexpected stimulus in plain sight.

Working-Memory Capacity

Working-memory capacity is the amount of information that an individual can hold temporarily in a readily accessible state for cognitive tasks.

Executive Functioning

Cognitive processes that include planning, making decisions, implementing strategies, inhibiting inappropriate behaviors, and using working memory to process information.

Stroop Effect

demonstrates the cognitive interference where a delay in the reaction time of a task occurs due to a mismatch in stimuli; for example, the word "red" printed in blue ink.