A developmental psychologist has administered a questionnaire to a large group of fathers to see how frequently they participate in each of 40 activities with their children.The psychologist wants to know if there are some activities that can be grouped together such that if a father does one activity,he is likely to do the other,but in which there is little association with activities in other groupings.The appropriate procedure is
A)partial correlation.
B)analysis of covariance.
C)factor analysis.
D)path analysis.

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Factor analysis is the appropriate procedure in this situation as it identifies underlying factors or variables (in this case, groups of activities) that are correlated with each other, and can help to reduce the number of variables to a smaller set of meaningful factors. This can also allow for a clearer understanding of the relationships between variables and can inform future research or interventions.

A Developmental Psychologist Has Administered a Questionnaire to a Large