N.A. has a damaged hippocampus, and psychiatrists visit him weekly for two years. During these visits, they test his memory and IQ. One of the limitations of this case study is that it ____.
a. may cause N.A. to behave differently because he knows he is being observed
b. is susceptible to confounds and experimenter bias
c. may only contain information the psychiatrists deem important
d. only shows cause and effect, not relationships between variables
Question 2
A doctor has completed a three-year research project on patients with dissociative fugue. She has decided the next step is to run correlational studies on her data. The doctor is doing this to ____.
a. determine if her sampling is representative
b. find trends and relationships among variables
c. find a cause-and-effect relationship
d. eliminate the possibility of experimenter bias