Dr. Hudson is examining the effect of treatment on Internet addiction. He has developed a new treatment program that uses both cognitive and behavioral factors to compete with the current behavioral-only treatment program. Dr. Hudson randomly assigns participants into conditional groups. Theo finds himself in a participant group that does not receive any type of intervention during the actual study, but is offered treatment 3 months after completion of the study. Theo was most likely in which type of group?

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Theo was in a waiting-list control group, which is a group of participants who do not receive the experimental treatment during the study but are told they will receive it after the study ends. This allows researchers to have a comparison group that does not receive the intervention during the study period.

Dr Hudson Is Examining the Effect of Treatment on Internet