In a psychological study aimed at testing a drug that reduces anxiety, the researcher grouped the participants into 2 groups and gave the anxiety-reduction pill to one group and an inert pill to another group. Which group receives the placebo?

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In a psychological study aimed at testing a drug that reduces anxiety, the researcher grouped the participants into two groups and gave the anxiety-reduction pill to one group and an inert pill to another group.

Let,

• group 1 be the set of participants given the anxiety-reduction pill, and
• group 2 be the set of participants given an inert pill.

Whenever there is a study in the medical field, one group of people is required to be compared with a group of people with the same physical and mental health status.

To maintain the mental status at the same level, a substance is given to both groups. The participants in group 1 are given drugs. The placebo is the substance given to the participants of group 2, without their knowledge to maintain the levels of two groups and obtain effective results for a drug study.

Here inert pill is a simple sugar pill given as a placebo.

Hence it can be concluded that group 2 receives the placebo.