People Diagnosed with Schizophrenia Are Randomly Assigned to Either an Attention-Training

question 182

Multiple Choice

People diagnosed with schizophrenia are randomly assigned to either an attention-training group or a social skills training group. Equal numbers of males and females were in each training group. Scores on a measure of thought disorder, a prominent symptom in schizophrenia, were examined after the end of the training sessions. In addition, there was a no-schizophrenia group. This study was a(n) ________________ design.

• A)mixed
• B)pure experiment
• C)correlational
• D)epidemiological

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