Dr Noyd Conducted an Experiment to Determine Whether Talking to a Psychiatrist

question 119

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Dr. Noyd conducted an experiment to determine whether talking to a psychiatrist made depressed people less depressed. He randomly divided participants who scored highly on a depressive inventory into two groups. Group A talked over their problems with a psychiatrist while Group B did nothing. He found that Group A showed significantly more improvement in their depression than did Group B. In Dr. Noyd's experiment, the experimental group refers to

• A)the differences observed whether or not therapy was received.
• B)the people who talked over their problems.
• C)the scores on the depressive inventory.
• D)the random assignment.

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