To Find Out How Children's Drawing Skills Improve with Age

question 14

Multiple Choice

To find out how children's drawing skills improve with age, a researcher asks 50 four-year-olds to "Draw the best picture of a person that you can." In each of the next six years (until the children are ten years old) , the researcher asks them once again to draw a picture of a person. The researcher then compares quality and detail of the pictures drawn at various ages. Which one of the following research designs does this study best reflect?

• A) experimental design
• B) correlational design
• C) cross-sectional design
• D) longitudinal design

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