A researcher is investigating the effect of high room temperature on aggressive behavior in preschoolers. Half of the children are in a classroom where the temperature is a warm 88 degrees and half are in a classroom where the temperature is a normal 77 degrees. The researcher measures the number of hitting incidents that occur in each classroom. In this study the children in the warm classroom are the

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The group of children in the warm classroom with a temperature of 88 degrees is the experimental group because they are the ones experiencing the independent variable (high temperature) being manipulated by the researcher. The other group of children in the normal classroom with a temperature of 77 degrees is the control group because they are not experiencing the variable being manipulated and their behavior is being used as a baseline for comparison.

A Researcher Is Investigating the Effect of High Room Temperature