Suppose you are a scientist who wants neurofeedback to become more widely used as a psychological treatment. The best strategy you could use to overcome common objections to this treatment and achieve your goal is to
A. design and run a rigorous empirical study that supports its efficacy for a specific disorder.
B. figure out which physiological functions would be best to target in order to treat various disorders.
C. design or invent biosensors that are smaller and more cost-effective.
D. come up with a theoretically sound explanation for how this procedure could create lasting benefits.
Answer: A
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a. the first 3 years of life b. 6 to 10 years of age c. adolescence d. the college years
Leena’s and Ruth’s mother takes them to see a dermatologist for their acne. The dermatologist, Dr. Pore, sees each daughter separately but prescribes the same medication for both. Dr. Pore tells Leena the medication has a 75% effectiveness rate. She tells Ruth the medication has a 25% failure rate. Leena leaves the appointment more optimistic than Ruth. This is an example of ____
a. ?the affect heuristic b. ?a framing effect c. ?utility theory d. ?cost?benefit analysis
In family studies of trait heritability, concordance rates are calculated instead of correlations when
a. the trait phenotype appears in an all-or-none fashion. b. the trait is continuous and can assume many values. c. the phenotype is invisible and unnoticed. d. females, rather than males, are the focus of study.
From an evolutionary standpoint, symmetry may be interpreted as which of the following?
A. developmental instability B. propensity to carry disease C. procedural artifact D. lack of genetic abnormality