Treatment (experiment)

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Under Treatment ( engl. For 'treatment') is understood in the psychology , the Social Research and Human Sciences any kind of measures, which the experimental group and / or the control group is subjected to an experiment or series of experiments in order after the completed Treatment statements about z. B. to be able to make previously proposed hypotheses. Treatments can not only serve to test hypotheses , but also to generate hypotheses.

literature

  • Jürgen Bortz , Nicola Döring: Research methods and evaluation: for human and social scientists . 4th, revised. Edition Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg 2006, ISBN 978-3-540-33305-0 .