Research Suggests That If a Person Expects a Drug to Give

question 70

Multiple Choice

Research suggests that if a person expects a drug to give her a high:

• A) the drug will have no effect on her.
• B) she will have the same experience as a person with no expectations.
• C) she is more likely to get high than is someone with no expectations.
• D) she will become physically addicted at a slower rate than would someone with no expectations.

---

Definitions:

Conditional

Involving or implying a condition in logic or mathematics, often expressed in "if... then..." statements that assert the dependency of one event or outcome on another.

Tautology

In logic, a statement that is true in every possible interpretation or a redundant expression that doesn't add informational value.

Disjunct

A component of a disjunction in logic, where the truth of any disjunct is sufficient for the truth of the disjunction.

Disjunction

A logical operation expressing that at least one of its connected statements is true.