Phyllis Found a Strong Relationship Between a Student's Level of Academic

Multiple Choice

Phyllis found a strong relationship between a student's level of academic achievement and whether that student came from a single parent and two-parent home. She controlled for the student's race in a trivariate table. She then found that the relationship held only for Asian students. In the elaboration paradigm, this is an example of

A) interpretation pattern.
B) explanation pattern.
C) specification pattern.
D) replication pattern.