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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