Question

Select the correct answer.

Answer 1

The correct answer is A. An interview with a psychologist who specializes in working with teen athletes.

Explanation

A primary resource is a tool for research that provides first hand reliable information to the reseacher and good support for his/her research. Generally, primary resources are people specialized in a specific topic, people who lived a specific event, photographies, letters, and other evidences that allow us to know about a topic. In the specific case of Jessica, an interview with a psychologist who specializes in working with teen athletes is the correct resource because is a person who has the necessary knowledge about the mental matters related with the specific population that she wants to research (young athletes). So, the correct answer is A.

Answer 2

D. a research article that includes interviews with teenage athletes.

D is the closest thing to a primary source because it includes interviews with the actual teenage athletes. Because they are experiencing the topic, they are the primary source on that topic. Got it right on Edmentum.

A sounds reliable, but it is incorrect. While they might have knowledge on the subject, it is secondary knowledge because they aren't actually experiencing it.

B is wrong because the famous athlete isn't actually experiencing it, so they're secondary, and it's not related to sports, mental health, or girls.

C is wrong because op-eds may be unreliable, a teacher isn't a primary source, depression in teenage girls is not directly related to the effect of sports.

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