Which of the following situations best illustrates the placebo effect?
A) You sleep because you are tired.
B) You throw up after eating bad meat.
C) You have surgery to repair a defective heart valve.
D) You drink a nonalcoholic drink and become "intoxicated" because you think it contains alcohol.

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The placebo effect is the phenomenon where a person experiences a beneficial effect from a treatment that has no active component. In this case, the person believes that the drink contains alcohol and experiences the effects of being intoxicated even though the drink is nonalcoholic. This is a classic example of the placebo effect. Choices A, B, and C do not illustrate the placebo effect.

Which of the Following Situations Best Illustrates the Placebo Effect