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Caleb Garcia
on Oct 24, 2024
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Often the experimental group receives a pill believed to have strong effects, and the control group receives a pill that looks like the other pill, but has no effects, other than those due to expectations. The one given to the control group is called a
A) synergy.
B) demand characteristics.
C) placebo.
D) transaction.
Placebo
A compound that does not have any healing properties, employed as a standard in evaluating new medications.
Demand Characteristics
Demand characteristics refer to the subtle cues or signals that can influence participants’ behavior in experiments, biasing the results.
- Identify the critical role and value of placebos in the domain of psychological research.
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Learning Objectives
- Identify the critical role and value of placebos in the domain of psychological research.
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