A social psychologist is interested in studying how people experience grief. For each of the…
A social psychologist is interested in studying how people experience grief. For each of the following situations, identify the research strategy (experiment, survey, content analysis, or participant observation) that she would be using:
a. To find out how people cope with the loss of loved ones, the psychologist selects a random sample of people and distributes a questionnaire that asks them to provide information about their personal grieving experiences.
b. The psychologist attends a grief-counseling meeting and pretends that she is one of the mourners (after having obtained permission