Which of the Following Is True About the Correlational Design

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Multiple Choice

Which of the following is true about the correlational design?

• A) Researchers gather information on individuals, generally in natural life circumstances, and make no effort to alter their experiences.
• B) Unlike the experimental design, it permits inferences of cause and effect.
• C) Researchers use an evenhanded procedure to assign people to two or more treatment conditions.
• D) In an experiment, the events and behaviors of interest are divided into independent and dependent variables.

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