Dr Sardonicus Wants to Know Whether or Not the First

question 94

Multiple Choice

Dr. Sardonicus wants to know whether or not the first three years of life are critical for acquiring language. She decides to study a child who was tragically deprived of human language by her parents. This type of research is called a(n) :

• A) correlational study.
• B) experiment.
• C) survey.
• D) case study.

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Definitions:

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