By continuing to believe that smoking is not harmful to his health despite evidence of its link to lung cancer, John is illustrating a self-fulfilling prophecy

In lecture the concept of adolescent egocentrism was described. All of the following characteristics of this phenomena were described, EXCEPT:

a. difficulty accepting that others may come to different conclusions based on the same evidence b. a sense that one's experiences are fundamentally different from those of others c. a sense that one is invulnerable to really bad things d. believing that others spend a lot of time being preoccupied with you

The gate-control theory of pain suggests that cells in the spinal cord interrupt and block some pain signals and let others get through to the brain

a. true b. false