A Graduate Student Conducted Qualitative Interviews with 30 People on Their

question 70

Multiple Choice

A graduate student conducted qualitative interviews with 30 people on their experience of illegal drug use. She learned about a factor related to illegal drug use that had not been considered in previous studies. As such, she developed a theory with this new information and created a quantitative survey to assess her new hypotheses. This is an example of which of the following?

• A) forming hypotheses
• B) the reserach circle
• C) identifying a research question
• D) direction of association

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Definitions:

Cultural Innovations

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Canalization

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