Franklin is interested in determining what college students do in their everyday lives. He gives some students a beeper and asks them to wear it around for a few days. The beeper is programmed to go off at randomly determined times. Whenever the beeper goes off, students are asked to write down where they are and what they were thinking about at the time. Franklin's measure could be best considered as which of the following measures?
A) A fixed-format self-report measure
B) A free-format self-report measure
C) A psychophysiological measure
D) A behavioral measure

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Franklin's measure is a free-format self-report measure because it allows students to describe in their own words what they are doing and thinking when the beeper goes off, rather than selecting from predetermined options.

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