Worrying about insomnia may actually make the brain more sensitive to signs of sleeplessness,further exacerbating the problem and illustrating _____.Thus,when persons cannot sleep,they should get out of bed and go do something else.Further,the bed should be reserved only for sleeping,and not for reading books,doing homework,eating,or watching television.If persons do these things and only lie down in bed when they are sleepy,behaviorists would state that,over time,the bed will become a(n)_____ for sleep.
A)homeostasis;unconditioned stimulus
B)ironic processes of mental control;discriminative stimulus
C)a conditioned compensatory response;conditioned stimulus
D)the diathesis-stress model;reinforcer

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The statement about "worrying about insomnia may actually make the brain more sensitive to signs of sleeplessness" suggests the ironic processes of mental control. The recommendation to reserve the bed only for sleeping is consistent with the behaviorist approach, where the bed becomes a discriminative stimulus for sleep. The other options are not related to the concepts discussed in the passage.

Worrying About Insomnia May Actually Make the Brain More Sensitive