Question

Which of the following describes the placebo effect?

A. Subjects receive inactive sugar pills instead of real medical drugs.
B. Subjects may respond to a treatment simply because they believe it is affecting them.
C. An experiment is repeated many times with real drugs and placebos.
D. Subjects are prevented from knowing whether they are receiving real drugs or placebos.
E. At least one block of subjects in an experiment receives only placebos.

Answer 1

B (:

Answer 2

D.
or
B.
only because when receiving a placebo you don't know if its the real thing or not.
id go with B first then D.

Answer 3

B, the placebo effect describes the reaction to taking sugar pills not the experiment or the procedure of it.

Answer 4

@mikaela04 agreed: but do you see where i was coming from for D?

Answer 5

Yeah, I was thinking about that too. But I think that might be a trick answer, because giving people placebo pills does not necessitate a placebo response. Does that make sense?

Answer 6

so true. in that case def. B