What Is the Major Difference Between How Phrenologists and Today's

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Multiple Choice

What is the major difference between how phrenologists and today's researchers study the brain?

• A) Today's researchers never use case studies.
• B) Phrenologists did not critically examine their data.
• C) Today's researchers focus on skull thickness.
• D) Phrenologists were not concerned with behavior.

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Definitions:

Double-blind Tests

Experimental procedures in which neither the participants nor the experimenters know who is receiving a particular treatment, to prevent bias.

Single-blind Tests

Experimental designs in which the participants do not know which treatment or intervention they are receiving, but the experimenters do.

Hypothesis

A statement that attempts to predict or to account for a set of phenomena; scientific hypotheses specify relationships among events or variables and are empirically tested.

Axiom

A statement or proposition that is regarded as being established, accepted, or self-evidently true.