What is meant by the placebo treatment?

What will be an ideal response?


A condition that enables experimenters to control for the possibility that simply believing one is getting an effective type of treatment produces a therapeutic benefit.

Psychology

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Rob suffers from occasional bouts of depression, but is otherwise a typical teenager. One of his favorite pastimes is browsing Facebook and demonstrating what he likes through "liking."

If he is like most people, his likes will have a _______ correlation to other's assessments and a self-assessment of his personality. A) low negative B) high negative C) high positive D) low positive

Psychology

Discuss some attitudes and risk factors that contribute to the incidence of sexually transmitted infections in the United States

What will be an ideal response?

Psychology

The _____ variable is what the experimenter "manipulates" or varies

A) control B) dependent C) operational D) independent

Psychology

According to your textbook, what test item format is used most often?

a. True/false b. Multiple choice c. Short essay d. Forced choice

Psychology