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Level 5 Unit 10 Reading and Vocabulary

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  • Who was eager to be given a supply of sugar pills?
    People who had taken part in a drug trial at Harvard
  • Who received a placebo after being told it was likely to have a positive effect on them?
    Cyclists prepating for a time trial.
  • Who can produce a similar effect to a placebo, using only words?
    A caring and sympathetic doctor
  • Who gave people placebos expecting them to have no effect whatsoever?
    Doctors in the 19th century
  • Who has the opposite reaction to most people when given some placebo pills?
    Italian soccer fans, for whom blue pills act as a stimulant rather than a sedative
  • Who developed the earliest theories on how major physical problems could have psychological causes?
    Freud
  • Who felt better as a result of medical malpractice?
    Patients with broken backs
  • Who didn't perform any better after taking a placebo?
    Half the cyclists who received placebo
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