The primary purpose of using correlational methods is to establish cause-and-effect relationships

Our ________ is based on our perception that we belong to various social groups, such as our gender, nationality, religion, occupation, and so on.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

An undergraduate student is designing a research project to investigate the effects of family background on the types of stress symptoms experienced during college. The project focuses on symptoms related to sleeping and eating

The student researcher must present the research proposal to a faculty committee for approval. What is the committee likely to recommend? a) Add more stress symptoms because people have different reactions to stress. b) Classify the eating-related symptoms as either related to anorexia or to bulimia. c) Quantify the stress levels students experience by counting the number of exams they took during the semester. d) Focus on students who have experienced stressful events quite some time ago, so the events will have had time to have an effect.