PSY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Theriac, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Antihypertensive Drug
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Unicorn"s horn: sold for 10x its weight in gold. Mandrake: used in shakespeare and harry potter. Give people medicine that can lead them to get better through therapeutic effects. The ailment just runs its course (called natural history effects ) Old saying about a cold: takes 2 weeks if you treat it and 14 days if you don"t. Specific active components of a treatment help the person. Non-specific effects of a treatment help the person. Something about going through the procedure that does not have to do with what the medicine or surgery is doing to your body. Inactive substance that has the appearance of an active one. People"s belief that the treatment will be effective somehow does make the treatment effective. Studies that do not test for placebo effects: Patients do not know what they received. Experimenter does not know what patient received. This does not test the placebo effect , just the effectiveness of the actual drug.
