Evaluating the Experiment from the Inside: Internal Validity Many Researchers

question 13

Multiple Choice

Evaluating the Experiment from the Inside: Internal Validity Many researchers attempt to discover whether subjects understood and followed experimental instructions by

• A)asking a panel of judges to rate instructions on clarity.
• B)informally interviewing subjects at the end of an experiment.
• C)performing a replication study.
• D)statistically analyzing discarded data.

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Definitions:

Unique Subjective Experience

The individual and personal perception or feeling that one undergoes, distinct and different for each person.

Characteristic Pattern

A distinctive or regular arrangement of traits or features that is typical of an individual or process.

Personality

describes the individual differences in characteristic patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving.

Environmental Stimuli

External factors or changes in the environment that can elicit a response from organisms.