The next questions refer to the situation described below. In an experiment designed to determine whether watching violent scenes on television increases the frequency of aggressive behavior in children, one group of subjects saw a nonviolent cartoon and another group saw a violent cartoon. In the play period that followed the viewing of the cartoons, researchers observed the two groups of children together and counted instances of aggressive behavior. The control group in the experiment is the group that:

watched the nonviolent cartoon

Explanation:

The control group in an experiment is simply the group that is being separated from the rest of the experiment, such that the results can't be influenced by the independent variable that is tested.

In the scenario above, the control group in the experiment is the group that watched the nonviolent cartoon. This is because the experiment was about determining whether watching violent scenes on television increases the frequency of aggressive behavior in children so those that watched the nonviolent cartoon really didn't matter.

an important point to remember about correlation is that while there is a _statistical_ relationship correlation does not equal _causation_

the first answer is: statistical

the second answer is: causation