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Some patients who are given a sugar pill to treat headaches feel much better. this is an example of the:

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Answer: Placebo effect

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They believed the pill was meant to help with their headache so it did. Even though the pill was fake.

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This is an example of a placebo effect. A placebo is something that seems to be a "real" medical treatment but the truth, it isn't. It could be a pill, an injection, or some other kind of "fake" treatment. What all placebos have in common is that they do not encompass an active substance meant to affect health.
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