A Researcher Who Is Interested in the Effect of Anxiety

question 110

Multiple Choice

A researcher who is interested in the effect of anxiety on people's social-support seeking behaviors tells a group of participants that as part of his experiment they are going to receive "painful" electrical shocks.He tells a second group that they will receive electric shocks but that the shocks will only produce a "mild tickling" sensation.He asks participants in both groups whether they prefer to wait alone or with others while he sets up the shock machinery.In this experiment,which group is the control group?

• A) "painful" shock group
• B) "mild" shock group
• C) group that chose to wait with others
• D) group that chose to wait alone

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