Answer:
The placebo effect
Explanation:
The placebo effect in psychology refers to a situation in which participants in a research receive beneficial effects due to the administration of an inactive substance or a sham treatment. The positive beneficial effect received can then be attributed purely to believe and not to the treatment itself. A placebo treatment could produce a real healing effect like a true medical or psychological treatment.
The participants who received the sugar believed it to be a memory enhancing treatment hence the slight increase in memory capacity due to placebo effect.
No a cell lyse would be hypertonic.
Answer:
Patrick's hypothesis was "If fish eat microwaved food, then they will swim faster through the maze."
The fish that are in the control group are the fish without microwaved food.
The independent variable is the microwaved food.
The dependent variable was the time it took for the fish to swim through the maze.
Patrick's conclusion should be that the special food did not seem to make a large difference in helping the fish become faster, since 8 out of 10 fish were faster in both special food and regular food groups.
