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jessicacav · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

A researcher interested in studying test anxiety in college students gave an anxiety inventory to random-samples of freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and seniors at their university at the beginning of the academic year. What type of survey research does this study represent?

a. Panel c. Cohort
b. Trend d. Cross-sectional

Question 2

Ms. Fortunato, a secondary school teacher in the United States, is interested in how Piaget's findings might apply to children in preindustrial countries. Recent evidence suggests that

a. formal operational thought is evident only in industrialized countries.
b. the sequence of Piaget's stages is culturally dependent.
c. while the sequence of stages appears to be culturally universal, the rate of development may vary cross- culturally.
d. rates of development are consistent in most cultures, but many children in tribal communities skip the formal-operational stage of development.