A meditation teacher wants to see if chanting a particular mantra helps reduce anxiety. She asks clients to fill out an anxiety scale, leads them in chanting the mantra, and then asks them to fill out the scale again. This technique is best described as which of the following?
A. one-group pretest-posttest design
B. one-shot case study
C. true experiment
D. correlational research
Answer: A
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