A researcher wants to study the link between test difficulty and self esteem by giving some people an easy test and others a hard test and then assessing whether these groups differ in self esteem

This researcher is using which of the following approaches?
a. experimental
b. correlational
c. observational
d. case study


Answer: A

Psychology

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