Your psychology professor tells you that she is collecting data on the amount that students study and their grades (i.e. ,she is asking each student to report how many hours he/she studies each week,so that she can determine if there is a relationship between hours spent studying and grades).Which type of research is this?

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This type of research is correlational because the professor is collecting data on the relationship between two variables (hours spent studying and grades) without manipulating either variable.

Your Psychology Professor Tells You That She Is Collecting Data