Health Professionals Should Be Attentive to Possible Biases in Expectation

question 3

Multiple Choice

Health professionals should be attentive to possible biases in expectation about pain responses and behaviour in men and women because typically,they assume men are

• A)dramatizing their pain
• B)minimizing their pain
• C)implementing more coping strategies than women
• D)misusing the health care system
• E)malingering

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Definitions:

Norepinephrine

A neurotransmitter and hormone involved in the body's fight or flight response, affecting attention and responding actions in the brain.

Transference

In psychoanalysis, the process by which emotions and desires originally associated with one person, such as a parent, are unconsciously shifted to another person, especially to the analyst.

Object Relations

A theory in psychoanalysis focusing on relationships with others and the external and internal objects people relate to, based on early childhood experiences.

Freud

Refers to Sigmund Freud, emphasizing his contributions to the development of psychoanalytic theories and techniques.