Introduction to Psychology 10th Edition by Rod Plotnik,Haig Kouyoumdjian

Exercise 24

An intervention that resembles a medical therapy but, in fact, has no medical effect is called a (a) _____. If a person reports an improvement in some medical condition that is due to a supposed treatment rather than to some medical therapy, that is called the (b) _____. One reason people around the world believe in placebos is that people give (c) _____ to their effectiveness.