The most helpful for revealing cause-and-effect relationship is __________?

Correct answer: B. the experiment

  • A. the survey
  • B. the experiment
  • C. correlations
  • D. naturalistic observation

Explanation

An experiment manipulates an independent variable while controlling other conditions, allowing researchers to test whether it produces changes in a dependent variable. Surveys, correlations, and naturalistic observations can show patterns but do not establish causation by themselves.

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