As They Walked Down the Street, Participants (Unaware They Were

Multiple Choice

As they walked down the street, participants (unaware they were part of a study) were approached by a confederate posing as a panhandler (i.e., a person begging for money) . The confederate asked the participant for either seventy-five cents or for whatever change he or she had handy. The researchers compared how much money participants gave across these two conditions. This is best characterized as which type of research design?

A) a field experiment
B) a natural experiment
C) a correlational study
D) a longitudinal study