Identify a True Statement About Descriptive Field Studies

question 7

Multiple Choice

Identify a true statement about descriptive field studies.

• A) They are often high in external validity because a sample of participants can be taken directly from a population of interest.
• B) They are often high in internal validity because an experimenter can randomly assign participants to treatments and manipulate one or more independent variables.
• C) In these studies, a researcher makes inferences about causality based upon the results from a study.
• D) In these studies, a researcher sets up a situation to resemble one that is naturally occurring rather than observing participants in real-life settings.

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Definitions:

Demographic Transition

The transition from high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates as a country develops from a pre-industrial to an industrialized economic system.

Mortality Rates

A measure of the number of deaths in a particular population, scaled to the size of that population, per unit of time.

Income

The monetary payment received for goods or services, or from other sources, as rents or investments.

Real Output

Measures the quantity of goods and services produced, adjusted for inflation, to reflect the actual physical output.