Researchers invite a group of homemakers to a specially designed model home where they are observed by other researchers posing as homemakers, who record their conversations with concealed tape recorders. This observation would be characterized as
A) Highly structured, contrived setting.
B) Unstructured, contrived setting.
C) Unstructured, uncontrived setting.
D) Structured, uncontrived setting.
E) Unstructured, undisguised setting.

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The setting is contrived because it is a specially designed model home, and the observation is unstructured as the conversations are recorded without a predefined format or structure.

Researchers Invite a Group of Homemakers to a Specially Designed