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bobypop · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

If previous research generated results about which you were skeptical, you might set up a related test to see if a similar, but different, experimental treatment led to the same outcome.

A study to assess your speculation would use which of McGuire's (1983) approaches to generating research ideas.
a. studying spontaneously occurring events.
b. studying the validity of everyday beliefs and when they break down.
c. evaluating formal if-then statements.
d. using previous research as a stepping stone to new ideas.

Question 2

In structural modeling, researchers often examine the pattern of correlations across variables over time, which is why the technique is sometimes referred to as

a. MANOVA.
b. MANCOVA.
c. path analysis.
d. meta-analysis.