The Placebo Effect Refers To

question 214

Multiple Choice

The placebo effect refers to:

• A) how participant's behaviour can change because of their expectations rather than the treatments they receive.
• B) how researchers can accidentally or unintentionally manipulate other dependent variables.
• C) the problems associated with drawing causal conclusions in correlational research.
• D) how participants can change their behaviour based on what they think the hypotheses of an experiment are.

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