Placebos are sometimes used in research in order to demonstrate the effects of participant expectations or beliefs on the outcome of behavior. Please select the best answer from the choices provided T F
True, as a placebo is just a sugar pill that can have no actual effect, by deceiving the participant to take the placebo the results will show how much their belief can affect them.
This is true. Placebos are typically sugar pills that are administered in a control group to test whether belief in healing/expected behaviour is as strong or stronger as the actual pharmacological effect of a drug. In certain trials patients do experience what is known as the Placebo effect where they claim to feel the effects of what they believe has been administered to them when in fact it is actually their own brain causing the effect.
