To test the impact of therapy on depression,a researcher tells a random half of his subjects (falsely)that they failed an exam.He then conducts one hour of therapy with the "failure" subjects.One week later the subjects given false feedback are no more depressed than the control group,so the researcher concludes the treatment was effective.This would be described as which type of research?

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This is an analogue study because the researcher created a simulated situation (falsely failing an exam) in order to test the impact of therapy. It is not a longitudinal design because the study only lasted one week, and it is not a correlational design because there was no comparison of variables. Convenience sampling may have been used to select the participants, but this is not relevant to the type of research design.

To Test the Impact of Therapy on Depression,a Researcher Tells