The Self-Help Program the Secret Assumes That Positive Thoughts Can

question 27

Multiple Choice

The self-help program The Secret assumes that positive thoughts can directly affect physical events in the universe to produce success and other positive outcomes. When a person who is not cured after using its approach, the program attributes the failure to the idea that "God had other plans" for the person. From a scientific perspective, the program's explanation for therapeutic failure shows that it is using:

• A) standards of evidence and quality reasoning to decide about program efficacy.
• B) supernatural entities that provide strong support that the treatment is effective.
• C) predictions about the program that are vague, untestable, and not falsifiable.
• D) negative testimonials to show that the program is not a pseudoscience.

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