An Unethical Experimenter Wants to Test the Relationship Between Discomfort

Multiple Choice

An unethical experimenter wants to test the relationship between discomfort and aggression. On a hot day, she turns off the air conditioning in one dorm and leaves it on in another, then has her research assistants count occurrences of verbal aggression in common areas of the buildings. Students in the air-conditioned dorm would be the _______, and students in the overheated dorm would be the _______.

A) representative sample; random sample
B) study population; sampling frame
C) control group; experimental group
D) independent sample; dependent sample