We Must Be Cautious About Accepting Patients' Statements About the Effectiveness

question 48

Multiple Choice

We must be cautious about accepting patients' statements about the effectiveness of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) because they may be motivated to justify their experience or because they believed the treatment would work before starting.This reminds the critical thinker of the importance of

• A)falsifiable research questions.
• B)the principle of parsimony/Occam's razor.
• C)ruling out rival hypotheses.
• D)supporting extraordinary claims with extraordinary evidence.

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Post-closing Trial Balance

A summary of all account balances after closing entries are made, used to check the balance of debits and credits.

Adjusted Trial Balance

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Closing Entry

Journal entries made at the end of an accounting period to transfer the balances of temporary accounts to permanent accounts, thereby preparing the books for the next period.

Income or Loss

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