A Researcher Is Planning a Study Looking at First-Year College

question 31

Multiple Choice

A researcher is planning a study looking at first-year college students and their experiences at a four-year university. A sample of individuals from the first-year class is taken at Time 1 and data are gathered. A year passes and some participants leave the study. However, the researcher gathers data from the same people from the first time, minus those who left. This is an example of what kind of study?

• A) Longitudinal study
• B) Panel design
• C) Cohort study
• D) Repeated cross-sectional design
• E) Group study

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Definitions:

Mental Processes

Cognitive activities of the mind, including thinking, perception, memory, and decision-making.

Sensation

The stimulation of sensory receptors and the transmission of sensory information to the central nervous system.

Perception

The process by which individuals interpret sensory information to give meaning to their environment.

Hypothesis

In psychology, a specific statement about behavior or mental processes that is tested through research.