In an experiment, researchers exposed half the children to 2 hours of violence on television every day for a month and made sure the other half saw no violence on television at all. At the end of the month, they measured the level of aggressiveness in the children. What were the children who were exposed to violent television?
1) control group
2) dependent variable
3) experimental group
4) independent variable

Experimental group: In psychological research, the term experimental group is also termed as treatment group and is defined as a group to which treatment is being provided by the experimenter in an experiment or research. The experimental group in an experiment of research consists of test subjects including cells, animals, human beings, objects, or plants, etc and therefore the treatment is referred to as the variable that the researcher is studying.

In the question above, the given statement represents the experimental group.