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:There's no active ingredient in a placebo, so any effect is either psychological or a mistaken perception. In other words, the placebo itself does nothing, it's the subject doing all the work or seeing a change when there really wasn't any. Additionally the "placebo effect" is different than a "placebo". [[User:LiamG|LiamG]] 17:29, 2 December 2008 (EST)
:There's no active ingredient in a placebo, so any effect is either psychological or a mistaken perception. In other words, the placebo itself does nothing, it's the subject doing all the work or seeing a change when there really wasn't any. Additionally the "placebo effect" is different than a "placebo". [[User:LiamG|LiamG]] 17:29, 2 December 2008 (EST)
:Classical conditioning is a trained physical or psychological response over time. You hit me every time I say a "potty word" I learn to either stop saying the bad word, or I learn to expect being hit. Placebos, on the other hand, do not require the person to have any prior experience with medication at all, much less this particular medication. It is the power of the mind to "cure" (put in quotes, cause it's not really a cure, but a distraction) minor things such as pain. When a child in a doctor's office is about to get a shot, the doctor may do something silly to make the child giggle; may pinch (gently) the child's nose; or may have a nurse slam a door... the distraction makes the child less aware of the pain. Prayer and Meditation can also have a placebo like effect. (I don't mean the actual curative side of God intervening, by the way). a patient may pray or meditate to focus on something other than a headache, and the headache "goes away".--[[User:JeanJacques|JeanJacques]] 17:43, 2 December 2008 (EST)