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What will be an ideal response?
CORRELATIONAL:
Advantages—(1) May examine events that take place over longer time periods and are very elaborate; (2) May gain information about events in which experimental manipulation would be unethical.
Disadvantage—Can say nothing about causal relationship between variables.
EXPERIMENTAL:
Advantage—Ability to demonstrate cause-and-effect relationship between variables.
Disadvantages—(1) Some uncertainty about what it was in the manipulation that was important; (2) Experiments on humans are usually limited to phenomena of relatively short duration, under carefully controlled conditions; (3) Experimental relationships often have little to do with central issues of personality.
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