Question

Janis decided she wanted her 6-year-old son donnie to drink diet soda instead of regular soda that contained sugar. she filled the soda bottle that normally contained soda with sugar with diet soda. donnie never noticed the difference. his perception was influenced by:

Answer 1

His perception was influenced by the visual cue on the bottle suggesting the soda inside was regular soda. This is similar to the placebo effect, which is a phenomenon in which the expected effect of a drug is obtained without ingesting the actual drug, simply a substance believed to have the same effect.