Advantages of Longitudinal Designs Over Cross-Sectional Designs Include Allowing Researchers

question 18

Multiple Choice

Advantages of longitudinal designs over cross-sectional designs include allowing researchers to:

• A)follow children's development over time
• B)study whether individual children's patterns are stable
• C)analyze links between early events and later behaviors while controlling for early behaviors
• D)all of the above

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