The Improvement Rate in a Group of Patients Receiving a New

question 28

Multiple Choice

The improvement rate in a group of patients receiving a new behavioral therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder is 62 percent.The improvement in the control group,who received no therapy,is 32 percent.The improvement in the control group is most likely due to:

• A) the placebo effect.
• B) experimenter bias.
• C) participant bias.
• D) inadequate experimental controls.

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