Professor Nichols Is Interested in Child Prodigies

question 157

Multiple Choice

Professor Nichols is interested in child prodigies. For example, she followed the development of a 3-year-old child who already spoke 6 languages, taught herself how to play the piano, flute, and violin, and composed music that most experienced adults are unable to do. Which type of research is MOST likely used by Professor Nichols in this scenario?

• A)survey
• B)naturalistic observation
• C)case study
• D)meta-analysis

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Definitions:

Randomized Block Design

A statistical experiment design that attempts to remove the effects of known confounding variables by grouping similar experimental units together into blocks before randomly assigning treatments.

Tennis Players

Individuals who play tennis, either professionally or as amateurs.

Blocking

A technique used in experimental design to reduce sources of variability within a test by grouping experimental units that are similar in ways that are expected to affect the response to the treatments.

Extraneous Factors

These are variables that affect the relationship between the independent and dependent variables but are not the variables of interest in the study.