Which of the Following Statements About the Correlational Design Is

question 105

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements about the correlational design is true?

• A) Researchers gather information on individuals 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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