Question

Drs. Goran and Lieberman are interested in assessing differences in pain threshold between men and women. They recruit male and female participants to a study that assesses tolerance for thermal pain. This is an example of a(n) ________ study.A. quasi-experimental
B. correlational
C. case
D. experimental

Answer 1

Answer:

Option A

Explanation:

A quasi-experiment is an empirical interventional study used to estimate the causal impact of an intervention on target population without random assignment. Unlike experimental participants are not assigned randomly in a quasi-experiment. Thus, the researcher must try to statistically control for as many of these differences as possible.