While thoughts, beliefs, and feelings originating in the mind can activate placebo - like «self - healing effects» in the body, the placebo effect doesn't just make people feel better;
it effects measurable outcomes in the body's physiology.
Not exact matches
We are looking for answers based on the drug model — a single drug, a single
effect, a
measurable outcome.
Phase 1 trials would be small, nongenerablizable empirical studies whose dependent variable is not year - end test scores, but «next - day or next - week
outcomes:
measurable effects on student behavior, effort, or short - term learning.»
In
effect, Bush is overruling the Cooke committee by making school readiness — an easily
measurable outcome — the single most important goal of Head Start.
Although a teacher can produce
measurable effects on student achievement in a single year of instruction, a principal's efforts are likely to require several years before their full
effect on student
outcomes becomes evident.