Dr Hudson Is Examining the Effect of Treatment on Internet

Multiple Choice

Dr. Hudson is examining the effect of treatment on Internet addiction. He has developed a new treatment program that uses both cognitive and behavioral factors to compete with the current behavioral-only treatment program. Dr. Hudson randomly assigns participants into conditional groups. Theo finds himself in a participant group that does not receive any type of intervention during the actual study, but is offered treatment 3 months after completion of the study. Theo was most likely in which type of group?

A) placebo group
B) waiting-list control group
C) post-hoc group
D) empty control group