A study of a program to help people quit cigarette smoking had three groups of subjects. The first group received one supportive phone call 10 days after attending a program on strategies to resist smoking
A second group received a supportive phone call every week for 6 weeks after attending the program. A third group received no supportive phone calls after attending the program.
In the above scenario, which of these properties of experimental research is evident?
a. Quasi-experimental design with no control group
b. Random assignment to research groups
c. Manipulation of the treatment dose
d. Control of extraneous variables
ANS: C
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A The group receiving no phone call is the control group.
B The scenario does not describe whether random assignment was used.
C The scenario describes manipulation of the independent variable by varying the interventions (doses) of phone calls.
D The scenario does not describe control of extraneous variables.
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