There has been an error in the display of this page. There has been an error in the display of this page. Inferring Questions: Exercise 3 - Writing logical conclusions/inferences Instructions: Read the passage and type your answer in the box. Click on the KEY PHRASES button to see important phrases.   Passage 5 of 5 This passage was adapted from Placebo Effects Prove the Value of Suggestion by Charles E. Henderson. <http://www.bcx.net/hypnosis/placebo.htm> Retrieved September, 2004.      A placebo, as used in research, is an inactive substance used as a control in an experiment. A placebo effect occurs when the placebo, which cannot on its own merit have any effect, does in fact have the same or similar effect as the experimental substance.      In research that has been conducted on human response time as affected by alcohol, subjects were given measured doses of alcohol at certain time intervals and their responses were measured following each "drink." But to make sure nothing else is causing any of the changes that may occur, it was necessary to have a "control" group. The control group members were treated the same way as the rest of the group, but they were given a beverage which they believed to be alcohol under the same conditions and with the same schedule. In other words, one half of the group was given alcohol while the other half, unbeknown to anyone except the researchers, got a non-alcoholic beverage.      As you might expect, those subjects who received alcohol began, at some point, to show signs of being drunk. And of course, given enough of the alcoholic beverage, many of them got plastered.      What you might find surprising, though, is that some of the placebo-drinking subjects – those receiving shots of a liquid prepared to taste like alcohol, but which in fact was basically just water – acted tipsy and sometimes even drunk. The reason those subjects who drank a non-alcoholic beverage exhibited drunk-like behavior was as a result of what is known as the placebo effect. Based on the above passage, what can one infer about what might have produced the drunk-like behavior in those who were given a non-alcoholic beverage that tasted and looked like alcohol? Answer the question here There has been an error in the display of this page.