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| No area has been plagued by questionable, erroneous, and often harmful beliefs than the field of _____. |
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| It has been estimated that Americans spend _____ per year on quack remedies. |
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| Part of the reason that erroneous beliefs about health are so rampant is that what they offer is so ______. |
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| Alternative medical practices offer _____ when the limits of conventional medicine are exceeded. |
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| Roughly 50% of illnesses for which people seek medical help are ______ - i.e., they are cured by the body's own healing processes without assistance from medical science. |
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| temporary periods of relief |
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| In ailments that are not self-limited, _____ give rise to erroneous perceptions of a treatment's effectiveness. |
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| controlled experimentation |
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| Many advocates of alternative health practices completely reject _____ as a valid means for arriving at the truth. |
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| It is easier to believe that a treatment is effective in bringing about _____ in symptomatology than in effecting a genuine cure. |
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| The more _____ the criterion, the easier it is to detect evidence of success. |
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| We believe certain things because they _____. |
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| This tendency to rely heavily on what seems ______ has contributed to a number of questionable beliefs about health. |
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| Representativeness Heuristic |
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| Effects should resemble their causes, instances should resemble the categories of which they are members, and, more generally, like belongs with like. |
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| Erroneous belief that the symptoms of a disease out to resemble or in some way suggest its _____. |
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| Samuel Hahneman's theory that every disease could be cured by administering to the sick individual whatever substance produced similar symptoms in a healthy person. |
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| Hahneman's reference books. |
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| Hahneman's theory that the less concentrated the remedies administered to the sick, the more they would help alleviate the sick person's symptomatology. |
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| Dr. Lane believed that he had spotted a location in the colon in which the flow of waste slowed down, and so he developed a surgical procedure to cut it out and speed up elimination. |
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| An orientation toward health and medicine that rejects or deemphasizes what is considered to be a materialistic and reductionistic bias on the part of conventional "Western" Medicine. |
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| emphasize the "whole person" rather than the local cause of dysfunction, and many problems are thought to stem from a lack of "balance" among mind, body, and spirit. |
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| Holistic practitioners make a number of claims about how the mind can influence the body that cannot be _____ at the present time. |
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| Researchers in this area are concerned with mapping out the biochemical pathways that connect the brain and the immune system, and thus with how mental states might influence a person's health. |
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| Very few of the _____ of any emerging field turn out to be true. (Author's prediction about psychoimmunology) |
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