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Each individual"s score remains nearly the same over the 3 month period. From this dr. cheng can infer that the test is _______: reliable, the placebo effect is when a patient is given a medically ineffective treatment but who will report a perceived or actual improvement in a medical condition. This is considered to be what part of what kind of medicine: psychosomatic, humans have an amazing capability to see patterns & understand concepts from combining smaller details & integrating them to form grander & better ideas. In other words, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. This is advocated the most by which psychologists: gestalt, when studying human behavior, a major concern are the inadvertent cues given off by the experimenter/ experiment context that provide information about how participants are expected to behave. This is called ______: demand characteristics, the degree to which an instrument measures what it is intended to measure is known as.
