Jayna recently participated in a study at the local university hospital. As she was waiting in the study's waiting room the staff approached her and apologized for the temperature in the room. She was informed that the temperature of the waiting room would continue to increase because the thermostat was broken and was scheduled to be fixed later that week. Researchers provided her with cold beverages and warm beverages as she waited and had her complete some measures while she was waiting to be called. Little did Jayna know that she was already part of the study. There was nothing wrong with the waiting room's temperature and researchers monitored the numbers of beverages she drank and found that she only had cold beverages and noted multiple times how hot and uncomfortable the room was. Jayna was most likely in the:
A) placebo group.
B) empty control group.
C) experimental group.
D) baseline group.

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Jayna was in the placebo group because she was given a fake treatment (cold beverages) and was led to believe that the waiting room was hot when it was not.

Jayna Recently Participated in a Study at the Local University