A researcher is conducting a research study in two high school health sciences c

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A researcher is conducting a research study in two high school health sciences classes-Class A and Class B. Each class is composed of 20 junior students. At the beginning of the study the researcher administers a questionnaire to each class about eating habits. The researcher then conducts a special class on healthy eating for Class A. Class B receives its usual instruction by the regular teacher. After the healthy eating class by the researcher, the researcher administers the questionnaire about eating habits to both classes again.

This research is within which research paradigm?

Positivist.

Cognitivist.

Behaviorist.

Naturalistic.

Positivist.

Cognitivist.

Behaviorist.

Naturalistic.

Explanation / Answer

This research is within BEHAVIORIST paradigm. It is stimulus response. All behavoir caused by externa stimuli. The basic premise of behavioral paradigm is humans are bset understood as behaving organisms., creatures who are complex in nature and mental capacity but who are best understood through an analysis of external stimuli. The founders of this behavorist paradigm was John.B.Watson, B.F.Skinner, Ivan Pavlov and others. Behavoirists beleive that our responses to environmental stimuli shape our actions

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