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vinney12

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Professor Swenson is interested in university students' reactions to the death of a popular rock star.
 
  For two weeks, Professor Swenson spends one hour a day in a popular cafeteria, inconspicuously listening to students, joining in their conversations when the topic of the dead rock star comes up, and recording what the students have to say. Professor Swenson is conducting ________ research.
 
   a. observational
   b. experimental
   c. correlational
   d. archival

Question 2

Observational research allows a researcher to
 
  a. make statements about causality.
  b. make predictions about one variable based on knowledge of another.
  c. provide a description of a phenomenon.
  d. randomly assign participants to conditions of an experiment.


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Reply #1 on: Jun 22, 2018
Answer to Question 1

Answer: A

Answer to Question 2

Answer: C


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