Which Statement About the Placebo Effect Is FALSE

question 7

Multiple Choice

Which statement about the placebo effect is FALSE?

• A)Patients given a placebo often misreport their pain experience.
• B)The placebo effect is somewhat dependent upon the conscious expectation that the placebo will work.
• C)Placebos deactivate brain regions associated with pain sensation.
• D)Placebos decrease pain, in part, by triggering the release of endorphins.

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Definitions:

Cultural Relativists

Adherents to the view that moral or ethical systems, which vary from culture to culture, are all equally valid and no one system is really "better" than any other.

Moral Absolutism

The thesis that at least some moral values and rules are universal. See absolutism.

Cultural Relativism

The view that cultures, as a matter of fact, have different views about what is morally right and wrong.

Ethical Relativism

A philosophical viewpoint suggesting that moral principles are valid only relative to specific social, cultural, or personal contexts.