When a Researcher Wants to Determine the Cause of a Particular

question 173

Multiple Choice

When a researcher wants to determine the cause of a particular behavior, the appropriate research method to use is a(n) _____.

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

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Definitions:

Garden Path Sentences

Sentences designed to mislead the reader's initial interpretation, necessitating a reanalysis to grasp the intended meaning.

Syntactical Inference

The process of deriving meaning or conclusions from the structure and order of words in a sentence.

Selective Looking Experiment

A selective looking experiment investigates how people can focus their attention on a specific task or object while ignoring other stimuli, demonstrating selective attention.

Function Words

Function words are words that have little lexical meaning or have ambiguous meaning but serve to express grammatical relationships among other words within a sentence, such as prepositions, pronouns, articles, conjunctions, and auxiliary verbs.