DrEager Wishes to Study the Effectiveness of a New Type

question 27

Multiple Choice

Dr.Eager wishes to study the effectiveness of a new type of child therapy.With parent and child permission, he randomly assigns children half the children to receive the new treatment and half of the children to receive the standard treatment.He then measures emotional/behavioral problems before and after the 10-week treatment.In this scenario, the treatment is the:

• A) Independent variable
• B) Correlational variable
• C) Dependent variable
• D) Case study

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