1. Problems & Solutions in Research
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2. Self-fulfilling Prophecy
Having expectations about something, and then either knowingly or unknowingly that causes it to happen

3. Ways to Avoid Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
Single-blind experiment
Double-blind experiment

4. Single-Blind Experiment
Participants don’t know if they are getting the real thing or not

5. Double-Blind Experiment
Both the participants and the researchers do not know who is getting the real thing and who is not

6. Placebo
Medicine that is fake

7. The Placebo Effect
A change in a patient’s illness or physical state that happens because the patient THINKS they are getting medicine/treament