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HCHenry · **on:** Jun 21, 2018

If only college students are used as research participants, what impact does this have on how results may be interpreted?

What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

A prospective research design

A) studies people across time.
B) uses individuals' present experiences to explain the past.
C) examines children as they become adolescents.
D) uses earlier measures to predict later outcomes.
E) uses primarily projective assessments.

anoriega3 · **Reply #1 on:** Jun 21, 2018

Answer to Question 1

Results may lack generality because college students differ from older adults in several ways, e.g., having a less fully formulated sense of self.

Answer to Question 2

D