FST 10- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 70 pages long!)
6 Oct 2017
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Test subject doesn"t know whether they receive the test substance or the placebo. Has no expectations about the result: double blind studies. Neither experimenter nor test subject knows what the subject gets: statistical treatment of data. 2 types of logic classified by philosophers: deductive logic. Reasoning from 1 or more statements to recach a logically certain conclusion: inductive logic. Using a set of facts and outcome for 1 situation to generalize it to others. Experiments must show a causal relationship: a caused b to happen. Idea continues to be debated and studied by scientists. Let us know if they taste worse than organically grown . The mind is possibly the most powerful medicine: endorphins (neuropeptides) produce the same effect as morphine. This is an example of: nocebo effect: mind generated biochemical that gave the same effect as morphine: endorphine. Class: fst 010 topic: introduction to food (history and what is food)
