What is one reason that early reports of the effectiveness of psychosurgery were quite positive?
a) The low rate of success of psychoanalytic therapy made any treatment, even an ineffective one, seem good by comparison.
b) The evaluations were often done by the surgeons themselves, who were impressed by reports from patients who were under local anesthesia.
c) Family members were the primary source of such evaluations; they were often enthusiastic about the positive changes they observed in loved ones.
d) Most of these patients were actually receiving psychotherapy and drug treatments simultaneously; thus there is no way to determine which treatment was responsible for any improvements.
B
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a. going to automatically pass that characteristic on to their offspring. b. definitely going to develop that characteristic. c. called "carriers" of the recessive gene. d. not going to pass that characteristic on to their offspring.
Which of the following is a guideline for using chaining?
a. choose an appropriate chaining procedure b. develop a task analysis c. use intermittent reinforcement when training is started d. a and b