One drawback of structured observations is that

a. the artificial nature of the setting may distort the behavior of interest.
b. they cannot be used to study behaviors that occur naturally only rarely.
c. they can only be used to study behaviors that occur in public settings.
d. they cannot be performed in a laboratory.


a

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