Trevor Plans to Study the Relationship Between People's Responses to Highly

question 156

Multiple Choice

Trevor plans to study the relationship between people's responses to highly stressful situations and their overall health. He decides he must use correlational research, rather than experimental research, to investigate this problem. Trevor will MOST likely choose a correlational method because correlational studies

• A)tend to be more accurate than experiments.
• B)have higher internal validity than experiments where there are two dependent variables.
• C)can be used to study either positive or negative relationships, whereas experiments can only be used to study positive relationships.
• D)can be used to investigate factors that would be unethical to manipulate in an experimental study.