Responding to a substance like a sugar pill as if it were a drug is called:
Correct answer: A. the placebo effect
- A. the placebo effect
- B. an extraneous variable
- C. variability
- D. psychosomatic illness
Explanation
The placebo effect occurs when a person shows a response because they expect a treatment to work, even though the substance has no active drug ingredient. A sugar pill is the classic placebo example.
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