Carolina wants to determine if preschoolers are more or less likely to initiate play with same- or opposite-gender peers. She is trying to devise a plan in which the children will not know that they are being observed. Carolina seeks a(n):
A) empirical method.
B) parsimonious theory.
C) experimental hypothesis.
D) research question.
A) empirical method.
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