You are interested in what predicts whether adolescents will engage in illegal drug use. You select a sample of 8^th grade students and follow these same students through high school, collecting data each year. This is an example of a/n: A) cross-sectional design B) longitudinal design C) one-shot design D) repeated independent-samples design E) naturalistic design

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This study is an example of a longitudinal design because it involves following the same group of individuals (in this case, 8th grade students) over a period of time and collecting data from them at multiple points throughout that period.

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