There has been a recent trend among professional athletes involved in competitive sports to practice transcendental meditation. The MOST likely reason for this practice is that meditation ______

a. increases blood pressure
b. increases activity of the sympathetic nervous system
c. produces deep relaxation
d. increases respiratory rate

C

Psychology

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A) dopamine. B) serotonin. C) acetylcholine. D) norepinephrine. E) L-DOPA.

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Psychodynamic therapies stress the need to gain insight into the unconscious forces that control us, while the humanistic therapies focus on helping clients to

a. apply learning principles to change maladaptive behaviors. b. gain deeper insight into their conscious thoughts, emotions, and behavior. c. change harmful thinking patterns d. improve their relationships with others.

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