A Researcher Is Using the Balanced Placebo Design to Investigate

question 65

Multiple Choice

A researcher is using the balanced placebo design to investigate the effects of alcohol on aggression. What has this research added to our knowledge of alcohol?

• A) Given a choice, most participants prefer tonic to alcohol.
• B) Expectations play an important role in the effects attributed to alcohol.
• C) Alcohol has powerful placebo effects in the treatment of many medical conditions.
• D) The effects of alcohol are the result of an inherited failure to metabolize the drug.

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Definitions:

Segregation

The enforced separation of different racial or social groups within a community, institution, or country, leading to inequality.

Law of Segregation

A fundamental principle of genetics stating that during the formation of gametes, the two alleles responsible for a trait separate, allowing each parent to contribute one allele.

Law of Heredity

Describes the principles guiding how traits are passed from parents to offspring, traditionally referenced in the context of genetics and biological inheritance.