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oO T-Mobile LTE 5:23 PM courses.apexlearning.com ical Analysis SUBMIT Question 17 of 25 Multiple Choice: Please select the best answer and click \"submit. Which of the following describes the placebo effect? O A. Subjects may respond to a treatment simply because O B. Subjects are prevented from knowing whether they they believe it is affecting them. are receiving real drugs or placebos. O c. An experiment is repeated many times with real drugs and placebos. O D. At least one block of subjects in an experiment receives only placebos. O E. Subjects receive inactive sugar pills instead of real medication

Solution

It\'s (B).

Answer (A) is a tricky wrong answer because it MAY involve the use of sugar pills.
In fact a doctor can pretend to do a surgical procedure ... and the patient may get
better because their mind believes the surgery will work.