Bower et al. (1969) asked some participants to learn hierarchically organized words. Other participants were asked to learn the same words arranged randomly. All participants were later required to recall the words. In this study, the group learning the organized words was the _____ group.
A)control
B)independent
C)experimental
D)dependent

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The experimental group is the group that receives the treatment or manipulation in an experiment. In this case, the group learning the hierarchically organized words received the experimental manipulation, making them the experimental group. The other group, learning the words randomly, would be the control group. The terms independent and dependent refer to variables in the study, not the groups.

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