Professor Rashad Is Interested in Studying Cognitive Development

question 90

Multiple Choice

Professor Rashad is interested in studying cognitive development. He collects and compares data from a group of 6-year-olds and a group of 10-year-olds. Five years later, he compares these two groups to each other again as well as to their own performance in the study five years ago. Professor Grant is employing a ________ design in his research.

• A) cross-sequential
• B) longitudinal
• C) behavior genetics
• D) cross-sectional

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