A Researcher Desires to Understand the Effect of Child Abuse

question 36

Multiple Choice

A researcher desires to understand the effect of child abuse on an individual's personality and attitude. He forms two groups of participants for the study. The first group contains people who were abused during their childhood and the second group contains people who had normal childhood. This type of division of people based on actual differences rather than through random assignment is called _____ design.

• A)ad lib
• B)ex post facto
• C)variable
• D)randomized

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