Asked by
Christine Amadeo
on Oct 11, 2024Verified
Promelute, a pharmaceutical company, conducts a research on participants for its new drug for obsessive-compulsive disorder. But the experimenter is unclear about the conclusions of the study because he is not sure if the improvement has been caused by the properties of the drug or by the participants' expectations about the effect of the drug. Such an effect is known as a(n) _____ effect.
A) order
B) placebo
C) ceiling
D) fatigue
Placebo Effect
A phenomenon where an individual experiences a perceived or actual improvement in a medical condition after receiving a placebo or inactive treatment.
- Recognize the significance of controlling for placebo effects in experimental research.
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Learning Objectives
- Recognize the significance of controlling for placebo effects in experimental research.