Dr. Adcock is a community psychologist studying whether a special program instituted for an at-risk group of junior high school students decreases behavior problems. At-risk students are randomly assigned to either Group A, the special program, or Group B, a study hall meeting at the same time. In this experiment, Group A is the __________ while Group B is the __________.
A. independent variable; dependent variable
B. experimental group; control group
C. control group; experimental group
D. dependent variable; independent variable
Answer: B
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What will be an ideal response?
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