Ecological Validity Is the Idea That

question 16

Multiple Choice

Ecological validity is the idea that:

• A) stimuli should be representative of the universe of such stimuli as they exist in the natural world.
• B) stimuli should not affect the conclusions obtained through statistical analyses.
• C) stimuli should have a clear-cut causal relationship with each other.
• D) stimuli should affect the hypothesized constructs they were intended to measure.

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