You are a contestant on Jeopardy! and it is your turn. You say to Alex, "I’ll take Ancient Explanations of Mental Illness for $1
00." The answer is, "His was the first recorded attempt to explain abnormal behavior as due to some biological process." The smile on your face reveals the confidence you have as you say ______________. a) "Who is Sigmund Freud?"
b) "Who is Hippocrates?"
c) "Who is Carl Rogers?"
d) "Who is John Watson?"
e) "Who is Plato?"
Hippocrates was a Greek philosopher and physician popularly regarded as the father of medicine. He was credited as the first person to explain the process of disease in relation with the human body. The old superstitious belief about illness before Hippocrates theory was that illness were caused by wrath from a god or evil spirit. Hippocrates demystified this belief by studying human body with rational explanations to symptoms of illness. He explained that abnormal behavior was due to some biological process in the body.
Meta-analysis involves the statistical procedure of combining data and results from multiple studies and trying to determine or draw relevant conclusions from here.
From the example above, Dr. DiLorenzo combines results from a number of studies of same topic to investigate the relationship between two variables. He is doing a meta-analysis.
