Descriptive Research Is NOT Productively Used

question 20

Multiple Choice

Descriptive research is NOT productively used

• A) to develop a profile of the "average user."
• B) to estimate the proportion of people in a specified population who behave in a certain way.
• C) to clarify concepts.
• D) to make specific predictions.
• E) to determine whether certain variables are associated.

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Definitions:

Temporal Lobes

Regions of the cerebral cortex located beneath the temples, involved in processing auditory information and encoding memory.

Personality Changes

Alterations in a person's customary patterns of behavior, thoughts, and feelings, which may result from developmental stages, life experiences, or neurological factors.

Axons

Axons are long, slender projections of a nerve cell, or neuron, that conduct electrical impulses away from the neuron's cell body or soma.

Neuron

A cell of the nervous system that transmits information through electrical and chemical signals.