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For his senior thesis, Jacob is studying the development of motor coordination in monkeys from birth to old age, but only has one semester to collect his data. What kind of descriptive research design should he use?
 
  a. longitudinal
  b. experimental
   c. cross sectional
  d. historical

Question 2

Why is content analysis considered a nonreactive research technique?
 
  What will be an ideal response?



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Answer to Question 1

C

Answer to Question 2

Content analysis allows the researcher to uncover aspects of the content in the text of a communication medium differently from what the researcher learns in ordinary
reading, listening or watching.



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