Results of a descriptive study on the cooperative behavior of sixth-grade students showed that children with opposite sex siblings displayed cooperativeness more often than children who did not have siblings of the opposite sex. The researcher concluded that 12- and 13-year-olds were more likely to learn to cooperate if there were opposite sex children in the family. Which criterion for
descriptive studies was violated in this example?
a) Descriptive studies can describe participants or events, not behaviors.
b) The researcher did not identify his criteria for cooperative behavior.
c) Descriptive studies do not assume causal relationships between variables.
d) The researcher only used fifth graders as participants in his study.
c
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