Author Question: When you conduct a correlational study with two variables, you cannot assess causal relationships ... (Read 109 times)

Beheh · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

When you conduct a correlational study with two variables, you cannot assess causal relationships among variables because an outside variable might be causally affecting the two variables in your research. This becomes an issue of

a. the third variable problem.
b. directionality problem.
c. restricted range problem.
d. heterogeneous subgroups problem.

Question 2

In a prediction study, the outcome that you are interested in predicting is called the

a. predictor variable.
b. measured variable.
c. criterion variable.
d. confirmatory variable.