In Order to Examine the Prevalence of Drug Use in Several

question 76

Multiple Choice

In order to examine the prevalence of drug use in several different generations of North Americans,a researcher decides to collect the lyrics from the fifty most popular songs from each decade,from 1940 to 2000,and to code those lyrics for how often drug-related themes were present.Which of the following methods is this researcher using?

• A) correlational
• B) archival
• C) observational
• D) cross-sectional
• E) experimental

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