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question 121

Multiple Choice

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A researcher wished to study the effect of a new drug on symptoms of depression. Research participants were randomly assigned to two groups. Participants in Group A received the drug whenever they reported depressive symptoms to the experimenter; participants in Group B received nothing when they reported depressive symptoms to the experimenter. After a month of this procedure, participants in Group A reported significantly fewer symptoms of depression.
-In this study, Group A was the:

• A) experimental group.
• B) control group.
• C) correlational group.
• D) cross-sectional group.

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