Question 11 pts The placebo effect means that you can \"think yourself better.\"

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Question 11 pts

The placebo effect means that you can "think yourself better."

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Question 21 pts

The placebo effect can (temporarily) make you feel better and "nocebo" effects can make you feel worse depending on your expectations.

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Question 31 pts

In the study patients said that they felt much better after receiving fake acupuncture. What does this imply about real acupuncture?

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Question 41 pts

To prove that a medicine is effective, pharmaceutical companies must show not only that their drug has the desired effects, but that the effects are significantly greater than those in the placebo group.

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Question 51 pts

Patients who go to the doctor sometimes begin to feel better even before treatment is given. This is called:

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Question 61 pts

In a small study conducted by Kaptchuck, people responded to placebos even if they knew they were getting a placebo

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Question 71 pts

It is possible that a doctor's unconscious though and subconscious signals he or she sends is a key factor in promoting (placebo) "healing" in a patient.

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Question 81 pts

When you try a new remedy or treatment and it seems to work, then you know the treatment is actually working. Or at least it "works for you."

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Question 91 pts

Sometimes the patient has a belief in the good effects of a treatment despite the fact that there is no observable objective effects of a treatment.

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Question 101 pts

Even though you might believe a "treatment is working for you" it may not have any physical effects at all.

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Question 11

When patients are told about the positive aspects of a medicine they feel better with this piece of information even with a fake medicine or treatment , hence, for a placebo effect instructions from the practitioners are necessary to "think yourself better"

Answer. False

Question 21

Nocebo is opposite of placebo effect, when patients receive information about the possible side effects of a treatment they begin to feel those side effects even the treatment that they are receiving is fake. So nocebo effect makes feel worser.

Answer. True

Question 31

The traditional treatments may have a placebo effect than real treatment of ailments, as the practitioners of these treatments are good at giving ample positive information about the treatment and this creates positive expectations in the patients leading to have placebo effect.

Answer. That accupuncture produce may only placebo effects and and no real treatment effects.

Question 41

When research on medicines are conducted a control group recieves placebo medicines which could be simply be sugar pill or a vitamin pill with information of the real medicine. In order to prove the effectiveness of the medicine, it is necessary that the effect of actual medicine surpass the placebo medicine.

Answer. True

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