A 40-year-old man presents with a 5-week history of recurrent headaches that awaken him during the night.  The pain is severe, lasts about 1 hour, and is located behind his left eye.  Additional symptoms include lacrimation and nasal discharge.  His physical examination is within normal limits.  This clinical presentation is most consistent with: 

The 5-year-old child of two very busy parents has been throwing tantrums. Whenever the child gets angry or upset the parents immediately fuss over the child. Nevertheless, the child’s tantrums do not diminish. In fact, they seem to occur more often. We may assume that the parents’ fussing over this child serves as a(n) ________.

In the experiment with Little Albert, the conditioned response was fear of the ________.

The idea that fibers in the sensory nerves can prevent impulses from reaching the brain – and thus prevent the sensation of pain – is part of the ________ theory of pain.

By pairing the ringing of a bell with the presentation of meat, Pavlov trained dogs to salivate to the sound of a bell even when no meat was presented. In this experiment, salivation to the meat was the ________.

The “all or none law” is the principle stating that ________.

The words “boat” and “goat” are most likely to become confused in short-term memory because ________.

Psychodynamic theory is most closely associated with ________.

Psychologists should only study observable, measurable behavior, according to ________.

Wilhelm runs an experiment and finds that males with high levels of testosterone tend to be more physically aggressive than males with lower levels of testosterone. This leads him to believe that testosterone has a direct effect on physical aggression in males. Wilhelm’s belief is best described as a ________.