Research is designed to measure the association between variables that are not manipulated by the researcher.
a. cross-sectional
b. descriptive
c. correlational
d. basic

Option c. Correlational

Explanation:

Correlational research is basically a method of carrying out a research where an experiment can not be conducted and where a researcher has to figure out that whether the two variable are in association with each other and if these are related then in what way the association between these two exists without any manipulation from the researcher's end.

It seeks to understand, measure and make assessment of the relationship or  

association between these variables but can not find out if a variable is caused by the other variable.

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