In a study on the effects of caffeine on memory, participants drank a bottle of taste less water containing 100, 50, or 0milligrams of caffeine. The participants assigned to the group that got bottled water with no caffeine represented the _____ in this study.

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The participants who received the bottled water with no caffeine represent the placebo control group. The dependent variable would be the memory performance of the participants and the experimental group would be the groups that received the bottled water with either 100 or 50 milligrams of caffeine. Meta-analysis is not relevant to this specific study design.

In a Study on the Effects of Caffeine on Memory