Susceptible You

Question 1

Christian Science main tenet is that all Christians have the ability to ____ themselves.

Answer 1

Heal.

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Question 2

Copernicus formulated a model that put the ___ in the center of our solar system, instead of the earth.

Someone else had formulated a similar model 1800 years earlier.

Answer 2

Sun

Question 3

Two complementary ideas, s___ and e____, are at the root of susceptibility.

Answer 3

Suggestion
Expectation
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Question 4

One way suggestion works is through good ____ telling

Answer 4

Story

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Question 5

The opposite of the placebo effect is the n____ effect, where we feel increased pain or sickness.

Answer 5

Nocebo

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Question 6

Homeopathy was created in ____ in the early 1800’s.

Answer 6

Germany

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Question 7

After hundreds of trials, most scientists conclude homeopathic remedies are actually p____.

Answer 7

Placebos

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Question 8

Pavlov’s classical conditioning was about setting the dogs e____ that when the bell would ring he would eat, thus salivating.

This is also why Tony’s idea of anchoring was bullshit for me.

Answer 8

Expectations

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Question 9

Classical conditioning can tap into the placebo effect.

In the 1970’s in one experiment, scientists gave an immunosuppresent with a sugary drink to rats. After a while, they could give just the sugary drink and the rats own body would turn off their ____ system in precisely the way as if they had taken the drug.

Answer 9

Immune

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Question 10

Consciously learning that you’re taking a placebo doesn’t necessarily stop it’s effects. Because classical conditioning happens largely on an u______ level.

I say it’s as if our unconscious is a different person from our conscious self.

Answer 10

Unconscious

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Question 11

Common conditions that respond well to placebos are p___, anxiety, depression, and addiction.

In fact, chronic pain might be the signature placebo-prone condition in the world.

Answer 11

Pain

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Question 12

With pain management, placebos work because the brain releases it’s own opiod d___.

Answer 12

Drugs

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Question 13

The placebo response isn’t about people being crazy or gullible. It’s a real neuro-chemical response in the ____.

Answer 13

Brain.

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Question 14

With placebos reducing pain, they trigger parts of the brain that produce o____ and release chemicals that dull the pain.

The brain can also produce endocannabinoids and serotonin.

Answer 14

Opiods

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Question 15

Is acupunture a placebo treatment?

Answer 15

yes

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Question 16

An active placebo is a placebo that has a tiny effect the person can feel, like tingling in the f____.

This often enhances the placebo effect even more.

Answer 16

Fingers

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Question 17

Perhaps the most important neurotransmitter of all is D_____.
It effects so many things, one of which is reward processing - why eating sweets, sex, and making money feel so good.
It’s a key player in the placebo effect.

Answer 17

Dopamine.

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Question 18

In one placebo study, dopamine release was (higher/lower) where subjects were told there was a small chance they might not have gotten the drug

This suggest for attraction one may want to let a potential partner know they are talking to other women, are selective, etc. This could help some of them get a nice hit of dopamine that’ll feel good.

Answer 18

Higher

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Question 19

Conditioning, pairing something with the thing that creates the response, is often part of making a p____.

The sugary drink rat experiment is an example of this.

Answer 19

Placebo

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Question 20

Peer p____ often enhances the placebo response.

In fact, even more than conditioning.

Answer 20

Pressure (I call this social proof)

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Question 21

Is traditional Chinese medicine (foot reflexology, herbs, etc.) considered placebo?

Answer 21

Yes

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Question 22

What often has a more powerful placebo effect, a placebo pill or a placebo surgery?

Answer 22

Surgery

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Question 23

The COMT gene plays an important role with placebos. You can be val/val, met/met, or val/met. For ___/____’s, a kind doctor increase placebo effect by 5x.

Answer 23

Met/met

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Question 24

The placebo response is a real, measurable n____ - c____ event in the brain.

Answer 24

Neuro-chemical

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Question 25

Val/val’s respond n___ to effective drugs, but treatments like acupunture, homeopathy, TCM and faith healing will fall flat.
Met/met’s respond a___normal to effective drugs, and alternative treatments can also work for them.

Answer 25

Normal
Above

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Question 26

Since placebos work u_______, knowing we are taking a placebo or that we are placebo prone doesn’t necessarily block it’s effects.

Answer 26

Unconsciously

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Question 27

True or false: Nocebo responses are more difficult to elicit than placebos.

Answer 27

False. They are easier. Tell someone something is going to hurt, and stress hormones are released that frequently intensify pain.

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Question 28

Hope powers the placebo response.

___ powers the nocebo respoonse.

Answer 28

Fear.

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Question 29

Phantom side effects refer to negative side effects of people give the ____.

Answer 29

Placebo.
It’s crazy1

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Question 30

Walter Cannon was the Harvard psychologist who in the early 1900’s coined the phrase f__- or f___ in reference to the s____ nervous system

Answer 30

Fight or flight
Sympathetic

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Question 31

Just as with Placebos, the element of s____ t___ is critical to hypnosis

Answer 31

Story Telling

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Question 32

Mark Jensen at University Of Washington has a machine that plays music when you reach a deep meditative state, then makes it go away until you reach an even d____ meditatie state. Sounds awesome!

Answer 32

Deeper

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Question 33

The Memory Wars are between people who think t___ can repress memories, and people who believe most repressed memories are f___

Answer 33

Trauma
False
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Question 34

The problem with past-life regression induced by hypnosis is that sometimes these memories are i____ by the therapist, whether consciously or by accident.

Answer 34

Implanted

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Question 35

According to drug studiese from 1987 to 1999, what percentage of drugs for depression efficacy was due to placebo effects?
A) 20%
B) 40%
C) 75%

Answer 35

C) 75%

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Question 36

Which neurotramitter crashes in loves who stay together for long periods of time without affection and sexual touching?
A) Dopamine
B) Serotonine
C) Epinephrine

Answer 36

A) Dopamine

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