A Researcher Conducted a Study Relating the Time Parents Spent

question 112

Multiple Choice

A researcher conducted a study relating the time parents spent with their children to their children's happiness. From a correlational analysis of the data, the researcher concluded that happier children are a result of parents spending more time with them. The possibility that the parents spent more time with their children in response to the fact that their children were happier is an example of

• A)the generalizability problem in correlational research
• B)the bidirectionality problem in correlational research
• C)the spurious relationship problem in correlational research
• D)the third-variable problem in correlational research

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