Social Variables Russ Suffers from Social Anxiety and Participated in a 6-Month

question 55

Multiple Choice

Social Variables Russ suffers from social anxiety and participated in a 6-month study of a drug developed to treat this disorder.While the physician who provided his medication knew that Russ was in the experimental group, he did not disclose this information to Russ until the study was completed.Russ participated in a(n)

• A)double-blind experiment.
• B)ex post facto study.
• C)quasi-experiment.
• D)single-blind experiment.

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