Imagine That Some Researchers Are Interested in University Students' Self-Reports

question 62

Essay

Imagine that some researchers are interested in university students' self-reports about their reactions to various stressful situations.Rather than simply asking the students to recall various stressful situations and their reactions to them,the researchers want to reduce the time between the students' self-reports about the situations and the actual situations themselves.Describe two methods that have been developed by social psychologists that could serve this purpose.

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