Luke Would Like to Know If There Is a Relationship

question 11

Multiple Choice

Luke would like to know if there is a relationship between the number of psychology courses people take and their level of empathy. He surveys a randomly selected group of college students. Each student indicates the number of psychology courses he or she has taken and then completes an empathy scale. Luke's research is best described as a(n)

• A) correlational study.
• B) experiment.
• C) prospective study.
• D) archival study.

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