You Are Interested in What Predicts Whether Adolescents Will Engage

question 4

Multiple Choice

You are interested in what predicts whether adolescents will engage in illegal drug use. You select a sample of 8^th grade students and follow these same students through high school, collecting data each year. This is an example of a/n:

• A) cross-sectional design
• B) longitudinal design
• C) one-shot design
• D) repeated independent-samples design
• E) naturalistic design

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