A researcher believes that if a new form of therapy works, it works only because the patient expects it to work. In psychology, this phenomenon is referred to as
a. the spontaneous-remission effect.
b. placebo therapy.
c. clinical ecology.
d. behavioral reversal.
Answer: b. placebo therapy.
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A. mandatory. B. inconsistent. C. higher. D. nonexistent.
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a. another experimenter to replicate the study. b. the reader to have a general understanding of how the study was done. c. the reader to have a vague idea of how the study was done. d. someone to know exactly what statistical analyses were performed in the experiment.
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Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
Young infants' tendency to look preferentially at the outer contours of complete visual stimuli is called the
a. Snellen effect. c. externality effect. b. perceptual differentiation effect. d. selective attention effect.