Leslie wants to study the relationship between dieting and low confidence in teenagers.Her hypothesis is that teenagers who diet start to develop low self-esteem because of the diet.She designs an experiment in which she places the participants into two groups-teenagers who are placed on a strict diet for three months and teenagers who are not.In the context of the experimental research method,the group that diets for three months is the:

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The experimental group is the group that is subjected to the independent variable (in this case, the strict diet) and is being tested for its effects on the dependent variable (low self-esteem). The control group is the group that is not subjected to the independent variable and serves as a comparison group to help evaluate the effects of the independent variable. The confederate group is not relevant to this experiment, and the confound group refers to a group that has been unintentionally influenced by extraneous variables, which is not the case here.

Leslie Wants to Study the Relationship Between Dieting and Low