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"If it were possible to directly teach individuals to lower their heart rate and their blood pressure using operant techniques," Schwartz said. "comparable relief might be obtained without drugs or surgery."
Kamiya's experiments are typical in several respects of all autonomic-research methods, which employ what is known as operant conditioning or instrumental learning. A monitoring device (Kamiya frequently uses an electroencephalograph) is attached to a subject, who is told that a tone will sound when he is in...
In the first frame the word to be learned appears along with a definition and an example. When he copies it correctly, the second frame appears. Now he has to be selective in his copying; He must see the common root of "fact" in "manufacture" and "factory." This helps him...