Experimenters using verbal reports as research tools
a. can rely on them as the sole dependent measure in an experiment.
b. should continue to do so since verbal reports are perfectly correlated with performance.
c. may find the discrepancies between verbal reports and behavioral measures to be interesting in and of themselves.
d. find few discrepancies between people's verbal reports and more objective behavioral measures of cognitive processes.
Question 2
A researcher conducts a survey to determine the average number of text messages that college students send or receive during a typical one-hour class. Which research strategy is being used?
a. descriptive
b. correlational
c. experimental
d. nonexperimental