Author Question: To find out how children's drawing skills improve with age, a researcher asks 50 four-year-olds to ... (Read 32 times)

ghost! · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

To find out how children's drawing skills improve with age, a researcher asks 50 four-year-olds to Draw the best picture of a person that you can. In each of the next six years (until the children are ten years old), the researcher asks them once again to draw a picture of a person. The researcher then compares quality and detail of the pictures drawn at various ages. Which one of the following research designs does this study best reflect?

a. experimental design
b. correlational design
c. cross-sectional design
d. longitudinal design

Question 2

Which one of the following statements best describes a naturalistic study?

a. It takes place under well-controlled experimental conditions.
b. It examines the behavior of people in their day-to-day environments.
c. It examines and compares the behaviors of multiple groups of people.
d. It focuses on newborn infants' behaviors, with the hopes that it can identify human beings' inborn tendencies.