In class, I asked you to create a case scenario for both the Self-Fulfilling Prophecy and the Placebo Effect. Please demonstrate your understanding of the concepts by discussing one of your case scenarios below! Due October 10th, 11 pm.
Saturday, September 29, 2007
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In class, I asked you to create a case scenario for both the Self-Fulfilling Prophecy and the Placebo Effect. Please demonstrate your understanding of the concepts by discussing one of your case scenarios below! Due October 10th, 11 pm.
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AVOIDING A SELF-FULFILLING PROPHECY.
A boy named Eric has a behavioral problems, so his mother brings him to the doctor. The doctor gives him a tranquilizer to see if it can help him. The docotr uses a single-blind experiment, where the participant is "blind" in the fact that he dosen't know hes gotten the tranquilizer but thinks hes getting a vitamin. A few weeks after the boy comes back to the docotrs and is told that he got the tranquilizer and it had
s helped him.
My little niece falls on the ground and get a strach on her knee.her mommy tries to put neosporn on it but she refuses to let her put it on cuz she think it will burn.so her mom put it on the banaide that she is going to put on the strach.she didnt know so she didnt cry.
The case of the Lorna Davis Remedy
Placebo Effect Period of study: 1998
Intro: Lorna Davis without a complete cure for cancer believed in herbal remedies rather than prescribed medicine by doctors. She was convinced that it was the doctor’s fault for her diagnosis of breast cancer.
Hypothesis: Dr. Rode Brown the same doctor that diagnosed her recognized her obsession over herbal remedies and wanted to prove to Davis that they do not actually work.
Method: in an attempt to prove her wrong he bought peppermint leaves and told Lorna to boil and drink the water of the leaves for six weeks. With so much belief in the remedy she remained loyal and after six weeks she returned to the doctor and told him she no longer had cancer.
Results: After running several test including a test for cancer and one for the effects of the remedy he determined she no longer had cancer but also that the remedy did not do anything but cleanse her blood stream. He concluded that it was not her obsession with the remedies but the belief that they could cure anything cured resulted in her curing herself.
Placebo Effect
John is in a trial experiment for a new drug that treats Multiple Sclerosis. His doctor told him that the study is a blinded experiment, and that he has a 50-50 chance of getting the "real" drug or a "fake" treatment which is being tested to see the difference between the two.
John's Multiple Sclerosis slows down for a short period of time after taking the drug, and was surprised when he found out he was in the placebo group.
Amanda Parker
A self-fulfilling prophecy could be decribed as an effect mentally that can effect your behavior or you physically. For example, my mom had told me when I was younger that I was going to get the flu bug once evry year around Chritmas because I had for the last few years. Eventually, I began to believe it, and every year after that obtained the flu bug. After a while, I began to tell myself I wasn't going to get sick, I was going to prvent it. I began to feel better and only got the flu bug every once in a while, when I didn't expect it.
VERONICA HAD A VERY BAD HEADACHE. I TOLD HER TO TAKE AN ASPRIN AND HER HEADACHE WILL GO AWAY IN A MATTER OF SECONDS. SO VERONICA TOOK THE ASPRIN EVEN THOUGH HER HEADACHE DIDN'T ACTUALLY GO AWAY SHE BELEVED IT DID BECAUSE SHE WAS TOLD IT WOULD.
My little brother was running around the house and scraped his arm. He had no knowledge of the scrap until he saw the blood, after that is when the wound began to hurt. When really it never hurt at all. It was all in his head in after seeing all the blood.
The Placebo Effect
Erik Is having trouble sleeping. he tosses and turns all night. He goes to the doctor to try to make sense of this problem. The doctor claims that its just stress from the job, but erik insits that its more than that. so the doctor says that he wants him to try a new pill for those who suffer from Insomnia and come back to the doctor in a week
A week passes By.......
erik is back at the doctor and claims that the pill worked Miracles and he feels great. He has never rested better before in his life. thats when the doctor tell him that the pill he gave him was just a sugar pill
My beloved students, I LOVE your ideas. But please proofread your work. While this is a blog, let us ALL try to improve our writing!
Katrisha's Comment
Melanie is having real bad stomach aches. She insists that her mother takes her to Memorial Hospital because she thinks she has a stomach virus. The doctor examines her and can not find the reason for her stomach pains, so he decides to use the single blind experiement. So he gave gave her a pill that he told her was naproxin that will ease her pains. 30 minutes he checked up on her and she told him the pill made her feel alot better. But what the doctor really gave her was a calcium pill that really could not cure a stomach pains.
Hilary went to the doctor becasue she needed help losing weight. She spoke with the doctor and told him about her problem. He insisted that losing weight is all in the mind and if she have the will power she can do what ever she put her mind to. But she demanded he give her some diet pills. The doctor gave them to her and she started taking them twice a day. After a month she lost twenty pounds and demanded the doctor he give her more. The doctor actually gave her water pills and her weight lost had nothing to do with the pills. She did it on her own.
Monique's Case Scenario of the Placebo Effect
Eight year old Timmy hated eating vegetables. The vegegtable he hated eating most was carrots. Timmy's mother wanted him to eat his carrots so she told Timmy if you eat these special steamed carrots you'll feel stronger than Popeye the sailer man, but if you don't you'll start to shrink. Timmy didn't want to shrink he wanted to feel strong so he ate the steamed carrots. Two hours later Timmy started acting as though he had all the muscles in the world and attempted to move the 50 pound couch. Timmy's mom came into the living room and asked him what he was doing, he say's "Don't mom i'm strong I can move anything!" She said "No Timmy I just wanted you to eat your vegetables." "what?," "Oh Nothing Keep Pushing" says his mom.
The Placebo Effect
A woman sees a pediatrician because her son is having chronic headaches. He tells her she has two options for the treatment of her son. Her choices include an over the counter drug to buy in the pharmacy or a special perscription drug he gives when head aches are unbearable and that it was sure to work. The mother feels her child is in need of something to cure him fast so she chooses the perscription drug. He tells her when to give him the medication and when to come see him again for another check up. Three days later the mother comes back into the pediatrician's office and says that the drug worked the very first day and her son was fine. The doctor informed her that the perscription drug was simply a sugar pill and had nothing to do with the boys immediate recovery.
A women brings her husband into the doctors. She states that he might be suffering from schizophrenia. The doctor said that he knows the asnwer to the solution. He believes if he tires the placebo effect it will cure him. The doctor tells the husband by taking the pills ( which are only sugar pills) he will have no more proablems. That will be his first option the secound one is, to do a dangerous brain surgery. The husband ofcourse picks the pills. The doctor doesn't mention to him that its only sugar pills. In a month the doctor sees the husband again. The husband states he has never felt so releaved in his life as, he does while beging on the pills.
kids in a school are diagnosed as depressed. they are told if you take this pill you will feel better and be more enerjetic. the pills are just vitamins but the kids are unaware, therefore they begin to try things they wouldn't normally do. then they realize they can, but they think it is a result of the pill
While entering Wal-mart, My little neice fell playing around in front of a crowd of people. She had a bruise on her elbow. My sister(her mother) says she will kiss it and the pain will go away magically. Based on the magical part, my niece made up her mind that the pain was gone.
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