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Chapter 4 psych
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The insights gained from ____ _______ or clinical experience may be quite useful in the ________ stages of the investigation of certain problems as indicators of which variables deserve more _________ study | case studies/ early stages/ intense |
| Case studies are not useful at the___ stages of scientific invest. they cant be used as confirming/ disconfirming evidence in the test of a theory. reason is case studie& testimonials are___ events that lack the comparative info. nec. to rule out___ ____ | later/ isolated/ alternative explanations |
| The problem of relying on _______________________ evidence is that there are testimonials to support virtually _______________________ therapy tried | testimonial/ every |
| The tendency of people to report that any treatment has helped them, regardless of whether it has a real _______________________ element, is known as the _______________________ _____________ | theropeutic/ placebo effect |
| The _______________________ of personal testimony often overshadows other information of much higher reliability | vividness |
| Car crashes, accidents _______________________ _______________________, and suicide at older ages are much more of a threat to our children’s well being than are things like _______________________ and shark attacks | childhood obesity/ abduction |
| “we are vulnerable to _______________________ scenarios” (p. 84). Such “_______________________ scenarios” have, for example, created an annual parental _______________________ of poisoned candy on Halloween | scary / fear |
| Since the Geller expose______ has continued to use his considerable talents in the service of the public’s right to____ _____ _____ in spite of itself by exposing the fallacies behind ______, biorhythms, psychic surgery, levitation, and other _____ | randi / know the truth/ esp / pseudoscience |
| Pseudosciences have massive ____ ________. When people spend _______ (and _______________________) on pseudosciences they gain _______________________ and they waste _______________________ that may have been spent on more productive endeavors | opportunity costs/ time and money/ nothing and time |
| In a complex, technological society, the _______ of pseudoscience can be propagated by decisions that affect ______ of other people. That is, you may be _______________________ by pseudoscientific beliefs even if you do not share those beliefs. | influence / thousands/ affected |
| It is important to realize that _____, the_____, and the print media w publicize virtually any outlandish claim in the area of psychology if they think there is an____ for it, no matter how much the claim is ___________ by the available evidence | television/ internet/ audience/ contradicted |
| Political leaders, when they believe in _______________________, can inflict the consequences of their beliefs on thousands of people | pseudoscience |
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