Suppose That a Researcher Observes a Group of Children at a Neighbourhood

question 141

Multiple Choice

Suppose that a researcher observes a group of children at a neighbourhood playground and records the amount of time that each child spends engaging in various activities.Based on this description, what data collection method is the researcher using?

• A)correlational observation
• B)naturalistic observation
• C)controlled experimentation
• D)case study documentation

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Definitions:

Population Standard Deviation

A measure of the spread or dispersion of a set of data from its mean, calculated for the entire population.

Sample Size

The number of observations or data points collected in a study or used in a statistical sample.

Standard Error

A statistical measure of the precision for a series of measurements or the estimate of the standard deviation of the sampling distribution of a statistic.

Population Standard Deviation

A measure of the dispersion or variance in a population dataset, indicating how spread out the data points are from the population mean.