Lecture 14

Question 1

true or false: placebo effects are effects caused by not active treatments

Answer 1

false

Question 2

true or false: placebos are effective for approx 1/3 of the population

Answer 2

false

Question 3

true or false: placebos cause subjective effects

Answer 3

false

Question 4

true or false: placebos can cause long term effects and give ex:

Answer 4

true
-people had fake surgeries in their knees and they were still feelinbg better after 2 years aka strong ass placebo

Question 5

what is usually a part of a treatment

Answer 5

-scecific effecrs
-non specific effects: placebo
like the type or treatment, its color etc

Question 6

what are the 2 types of nocebo

Answer 6

-negative side effects
-non specific effects: nocebo

Question 7

placebos and nocebos are affected by what?

Answer 7

context
-cultural symptoms
-environment

Question 8

placebo’s effect on someone depends on what

Answer 8

-personality
-what we are trying to treat
-context

Question 9

true or false: placebo has no effect on depressed people

Answer 9

false it does actually most of the work

Question 10

true or false: placebo does not affect psychidelic drugs

Answer 10

-it does when you create a super placebo but nbot in a clinical setting
-with the crazy placebo everyone had some type placebo effect aka they took fake drugs

Question 11

what are confederates

Answer 11

fake participants

Question 12

what is the five dimentional altered states of consciousness scale

Answer 12

scaled used to see how u feel

Question 13

true or false: placebo works because people think that the drug is real

Answer 13

-even with an open placebo it still works lol
-maybe due to hope and misstrust in docs