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Variations and Problems with Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Approaches
- Studies are costly to carry out
- Require great patience and continuity leadership in the research program
- Researchers must live with design mistakes made years earlier or put up with outmoded research and assessment methods
- Participants sometimes drop out of longitudinal studies
- One must demonstrate that the retained participants are representative of those that started the study
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Updated 2022-02-19
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Variations and Problems with Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Approaches
A developmental psychologist wants to study how problem-solving skills change over the lifespan. The psychologist recruits a group of 20-year-olds, a group of 40-year-olds, and a group of 60-year-olds. All participants are given the same problem-solving test during the same month. Which research design does this study exemplify?