A Nutrition Researcher Would Like to Determine Whether Women Who

question 15

Multiple Choice

A nutrition researcher would like to determine whether women who take fish oil supplements during pregnancy give birth to babies who score higher on basic intelligence tests when they are 5 years of age than the 5-year old children that were born to women who did not take the fish oil supplements during pregnancy.This kind of research is a(n) _____ study.

• A)case-control
• B)in vivo
• C)prospective
• D)double-blind

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Definitions:

Instinct

An innate, typically fixed pattern of behavior in animals in response to certain stimuli, believed to be driven by biological necessities.

Tension

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Homeostatic Approach

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Balance and Equilibrium

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