Psychology Atlas
Claims this atlas currently marks as unsettled or as tested and found false. A debated fact is one scholars hold competing positions on; a debunked one has been checked against the record and found not to hold. Both are kept in view rather than quietly smoothed over, with the reasoning that put each one where it stands.
2 statements marked Debunked.
Facilitated Communication Studies, Key FindingControlled studies, including blind conditions in which the facilitator and the person being facilitated were shown different pictures or questions, repeatedly found that typed messages matched what the facilitator, not the person being facilitated, could see or know; by 2005 more than fifty controlled studies had reached this conclusion, the mechanism identified as an unconscious ideomotor effect akin to a Ouija board, and the American Psychological Association stated in 1994 that there was no scientifically demonstrated support for the technique's efficacy.
Facilitated Communication Studies, Studies and Experiments
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Concerns Key Finding
Currently States Controlled studies, including blind conditions in which the facilitator and the person being facilitated were shown different pictures or questions, repeatedly found that typed messages matched what the facilitator, not the person being facilitated, could see or know; by 2005 more than fifty controlled studies had reached this conclusion, the mechanism identified as an unconscious ideomotor effect akin to a Ouija board, and the American Psychological Association stated in 1994 that there was no scientifically demonstrated support for the technique's efficacy.
Source Wikipedia: Facilitated Communication
Triune Brain Theory, Core ClaimThe vertebrate forebrain evolved in three distinct layers, a reptilian complex governing instinct, a paleomammalian limbic system governing emotion, and a neomammalian neocortex enabling rational thought, each an evolutionary addition on top of the last.
Triune Brain Theory, Theories and Concepts
Standing
Concerns Core Claim
Currently States The vertebrate forebrain evolved in three distinct layers, a reptilian complex governing instinct, a paleomammalian limbic system governing emotion, and a neomammalian neocortex enabling rational thought, each an evolutionary addition on top of the last.
Comparative neuroscience considers the model outdated: the brain structures MacLean treated as unique to each evolutionary stage are now known to appear across many vertebrate groups, including reptiles, which show cognitive abilities the model did not predict; the article states the hypothesis is now regarded as a myth, largely abandoned by comparative neuroscientists around the turn of the twenty-first century.
Source Wikipedia: Triune Brain