AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Q. The disadvantage of this method of descriptive research is that the data is limited to only answering the question(s) asked. These limitations lead to biases, ambiguous conclusions, and low participation rates among research populations.

Detailed explanation-2: -Descriptive research is research designed to provide a snapshot of the current state of affairs. Correlational research is research designed to discover relationships among variables and to allow the prediction of future events from present knowledge.

Detailed explanation-3: -Descriptive correlational studies describe the variables and the relationships that occur naturally between and among them. Predictive Correlational Designs. Predictive correlational studies predict the variance of one or more variables based on the variance of another variable (s).