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Responding to a substance like a sugar pill as if it were a drug is called:

A. The placebo effect

B. An extraneous variable
C. Variability
D. Psychosomatic illness

Responding to a substance like a sugar pill as if it were a drug is called: | The placebo effect | CSS, PMS, PPSC, FPSC, KPPSC, SPSC, ISSB and NTS Past Papers | Pakistan's Largest Online Past Papers Database

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