Snapshot Study

Question 1

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Answer 1

They are relatively cheap to undertake.

Question 2

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Answer 2

A good way of gathering preliminary evidence before getting locked into expensive and time consuming longitudinal research.

Question 3

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Answer 3

The long term effects of exposure to a particular situation cannot be investigated.

Question 4

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Answer 4

Cannot see how changes in society over time affect people’s behaviour.

Question 5

Snapshot study.

Answer 5

This is where participants are studied over a short period of time. The amount of data collected from participants is limited.