Professor Williams wants to know if "real" college students exhibit the same kinds of behaviors in class that subjects who were paid to act like college students do. She decides to have someone come in once a week to her classes to record the types of nonverbal behaviors that students engage in while listening to her lectures. This would be an example of which kind of study?
a. A formal experiment
b. Naturalistic observation
c. Case study
d. Survey research
Ans: b. Naturalistic observation
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a. experience; heritability c. external factors; internal factors b. heritability; biology d. heritability; environmental influences
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Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
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