To examine the effect of empathy training on teenagers' bullying behaviours, 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 (bullying movie), while Group B is the experimental group as they receive the intervention intended to affect bullying behavior.

To Examine the Effect of Empathy Training on Teenagers' Bullying