Question 15 Compared to quantitative researchers, QUALITATIVE researchers are more likely to O study behavior in a laboratory setting. O focus on identifying cause-and-effect relationships among variables. Otry to maximize internal validity. O focus on understanding how people experience and interpret events in their lives. Question 16 2. One of the criteria of causality is time precedence of the cause and effect. The experimental research strategy meets this criterion O through manipulation of the independent variable before measuring the dependent variable. Oby holding variables other than the independent variable constant. when it finds an effect of the independent variable on the dependent variable. Othrough reliable measurement of the dependent variable.