Land conducted a study in a preschool to test his hypothesis that the amount of unstructured time (free play) in a day affects the amount of unruliness that children display. Teachers systematically varied the amount of free play each day for a month, and Dr. Land's research assistants recorded the amount of unruliness children displayed each day. This study would best be described as a(n)
A) correlational study.
B) laboratory experiment.
C) field experiment.
D) quasi-experiment.

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This study is best described as a field experiment because it involves manipulating an independent variable (amount of free play) in a natural setting (a preschool) to observe the effect on a dependent variable (amount of unruliness).

Land Conducted a Study in a Preschool to Test His