EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Negative control group: In this type of control group, the participants are not given a treatment. The experimental group can then be compared to the group that did not experience any change or results.

Detailed explanation-2: -Control groups in experiments The treatment group (also called the experimental group) receives the treatment whose effect the researcher is interested in. The control group receives either no treatment, a standard treatment whose effect is already known, or a placebo (a fake treatment to control for placebo effect).

Detailed explanation-3: -In a clinical trial, the group that does not receive the new treatment being studied. This group is compared to the group that receives the new treatment, to see if the new treatment works.

Detailed explanation-4: -The group that receives the treatment in an experiment (here, the watered pot) is called the experimental group, while the group that does not receive the treatment (here, the dry pot) is called the control group. The control group provides a baseline that lets us see if the treatment has an effect.

Detailed explanation-5: -one of a group of drugs originally used in laboratory experiments to determine if they could induce psychoses, or states mimicking psychoses, on the basis of their effects. The group includes LSD and amphetamines. Also called psychomimetic.