Question

A researcher is conducting an experiment on the effect of alcohol consumption on reaction time; half of the subjects drink alcoholic drinks, and half drink nonalcoholic versions of the same drinks. the subjects receiving the nonalcoholic drinks are the ____ group and are used in the study to minimize the influence of ____.

Answer 1

A researcher is conducting an experiment on the effect of alcohol consumption on reaction time; half of the subjects drink alcoholic drinks, and half drink nonalcoholic versions of the same drinks. The subjects receiving the nonalcoholic drinks are the control group and are used in the study to minimize the influence of placebo effect.

Answer 2

The subjects receiving the nonalcoholic drinks are the control group and are used in the study to minimize the influence of placebo effect.A control group is a group separated from the rest of the experiment . The purpose of the control group is to isolate the effect of the independent variable on the dependent variable. The placebo effect is a phenomenon in which the body starts to heal even if it only thinks it is receiving treatment. In this case the effect is obtained with non-acoholic drinks,