A graduate student conducted qualitative interviews with 30 people on their experience of illegal drug use. She learned about a factor related to illegal drug use that had not been considered in previous studies. As such, she developed a theory with this new information and created a quantitative survey to assess her new hypotheses. This is an example of which of the following?
A) forming hypotheses
B) the reserach circle
C) identifying a research question
D) direction of association

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The graduate student's process exemplifies the research circle, where qualitative data from interviews led to the development of a new theory, which was then tested through a quantitative survey. This iterative process of moving from observation (qualitative interviews) to theory development and then to hypothesis testing (quantitative survey) reflects the cyclical nature of the research process.

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