To examine the effect of empathy training on teenagers' bullying behaviors, a researcher splits a group of high school students into two groups through random assignment. Group A is shown a movie about an interesting science experiment, and group B is shown a movie about students being harmed by bullies. Group A would be the _____ group, and group B would be the _____ group.
A) dependent; independent
B) independent; dependent
C) control; experimental
D) experimental; control

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Group A is the control group because they are not exposed to the empathy training (the independent variable), which is the focus of the study. Group B is the experimental group because they are exposed to the empathy training through the movie about students being harmed by bullies, to see if it affects their bullying behaviors (the dependent variable).

To Examine the Effect of Empathy Training on Teenagers' Bullying