Megan believes she has found a medication that will greatly reduce the symptoms of depression, so she decides to conduct an experiment to test her ____. She randomly assigns depressed people to one of two groups. One group of participants takes the medication, while the other group gets only sugar pills. The latter group is receiving a ____.?
a. ?hypothesis; placebo
b. ?theory; random variable
c. ?bias; treatment
d. ?intervening variable; placebo
ANSWER:
a
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