A noted psychologist and environmentalist, Dr. Pigeon, has received a grant to study older persons' bird-feeding behavior in public parks. Dr. Pigeon has research assistants sit in public parks to unobtrusively collect the data. Dr. Pigeon has chosen a ____ research method.?
a. ?case study
b. ?naturalistic observational
c. ?controlled experimental
d. ?survey
ANSWER:
b
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