A Researcher Randomly Assigned Participants to Two Groups

question 130

Multiple Choice

A researcher randomly assigned participants to two groups. Group A received the drug whenever they reported depressive symptoms to the experimenter; group B received no drugs at any point. In this study, group A was the:

• A) experimental group.
• B) control group.
• C) correlational group.
• D) cross-sectional group.

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