Megan believes she has found a medication that will greatly reduce the symptoms of depression,so she decides to conduct an experiment to test her ____.She randomly assigns depressed people to one of two groups.One group of participants takes the medication,while the other group gets only sugar pills.The latter group is receiving a ____.

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Megan is testing her hypothesis that the medication will reduce the symptoms of depression. The group receiving sugar pills is the control group, which is receiving a placebo (an inert substance that has no therapeutic effect but is used as a control in experiments).

Megan Believes She Has Found a Medication That Will Greatly