A Researcher Is Investigating the Effect of High Room Temperature

question 175

Multiple Choice

A researcher is investigating the effect of high room temperature on aggressive behavior in preschoolers. Half of the children are in a classroom where the temperature is a warm 88 degrees and half are in a classroom where the temperature is a normal 77 degrees. The researcher measures the number of hitting incidents that occur in each classroom. In this study the children in the normal temperature classroom are the

• A) primary group.
• B) secondary group.
• C) experimental group.
• D) control group.

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