Medical Patients Who Are Distracted from Thinking About Their Pain A)are

Listening to music during a painful experience A)increases pain sensations,but decreases people's complaints about it. B)leads people to say they feel less pain,although they act as if they are experiencing an increase in pain. C)sometimes reduces the intensity of the perceived pain. D)makes pain feel more intense than usual,and increases their complaints of pain.

In one experiment,subjects listened to either music or no music while holding their fingers in ice water.Under which conditions did subjects tolerate the pain most successfully? A)Subjects listened to music and were told that it would relieve the pain. B)Subjects listened to alleged "ultrasonic sounds" but were not told that they would relieve the pain. C)Subjects listened to alleged "ultrasonic sounds" and were told that they would relieve the pain. D)Subjects listened to music but were not told that it would relieve the pain.