Sandy Sue was participating in an experiment
in which she was given a pill that was supposed to cause her to get drowsy. Five minutes after taking the pill, Sandy Sue reported that she felt drowsy and wanted to lie down. The pill was actually made of sugar and had no ingredients to cause drowsiness. How do you explain Sandy Sue's drowsy feeling?
a) experimenter effect
b) placebo effect
c) subject bias
d) treatment effect
ANS: b
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A) Uninvolved parents are warm and accepting but uninvolved in their children's lives. B) At its extreme, uninvolved parenting is a form of child maltreatment called neglect. C) Uninvolved parents frequently use psychological control over their children. D) Children of uninvolved parents typically achieve average academic performance.
Information in long-term memory is typically arranged in all of the following EXCEPT
a. rules. b. similarity. c. alphabetically. d. personal meanings.