You Have Designed an Experiment to Test a New Drug

question 164

Multiple Choice

You have designed an experiment to test a new drug. You prepare the injection doses of the drug and a placebo and label them with different letters. Then, you hire research assistants to give the injections and to collect data from the participants. Neither the research assistants nor the participants will know which injection is the drug or the placebo, or whether a participant is in the experimental or the control group. You have

• A) created a placebo effect.
• B) designed a single-blind experiment.
• C) designed a double-blind experiment.
• D) created a self-fulfilling prophecy.

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Definitions:

Occam's Razor

A principle suggesting that the simplest explanation is often the correct one when presented with competing hypotheses.

Countertransference

A psychological phenomenon where therapists project their own personal biases, feelings, and experiences onto their patients.

Topographic Model

A theory in psychoanalysis introduced by Freud that divides the human psyche into the conscious, preconscious, and unconscious.

Conscious Mind

The aspect of the mind that involves awareness of the self, the environment, and one's thoughts, feelings, and experiences at any given moment.