The family of a young adult with schizophrenia has paid for a treatment that is known to lack empirical or theoretical support. This family is using which of the following?
A) Quackery
B) Junk science
C) Myths
D) Pseudoscience
Ans: D
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Pseudoscience is the term used for those therapies and treatments without empirical or theoretical support. Such practices frequently are based on assumptions at odds with paradigms generally accepted by professionals in related areas.
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