Dr Gomez Would Like to Know How Many Parents Use

Multiple Choice

Dr. Gomez would like to know how many parents use spanking as a form of punishment. She knows she cannot solicit this information from every parent in the country, so she asks a subset of parents that she thinks are representative of all parents in the country. The collection of the data in this study is an example of using __________.

A) naturalistic observation
B) ethnography
C) survey research
D) psychophysiological methods