Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)
1. Symptoms of psychological disorders can lessen on their own without any therapy.
2. The therapeutic effects of antidepressant medication are due, in considerable part, to placebo effects.
3. A reduction in symptoms due to the administration of a placebo is considered to be a type of natural improvement.
4. Outcome studies assess whether or not a treatment is effective.
5. The addition of a wait-list control group helps eliminate the possibility that the observed treatment effectiveness was actually due to nonspecific treatment effects.
1. TRUE
2. TRUE
3. FALSE
4. TRUE
5. FALSE
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