In a Drug Study,giving Individuals in the Control Group a Placebo

question 19

Multiple Choice

In a drug study,giving individuals in the control group a placebo pill allows researchers to determine whether

• A)research participant bias is more significant socially than experimenter bias.
• B)confederates are effective at changing the social context of the experiment.
• C)the operational definition of the dependent variable is the same as the operational definition of the independent variable.
• D)changes in the experimental group are due to the active drug agent.

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