"External Validity" of an Experiment Refers to the Extent to Which

question 13

Multiple Choice

"External validity" of an experiment refers to the extent to which

• A) the operational definitions of variables really do represent the concepts they are meant to capture.
• B) we can be confident that the experiment is testing the hypothesis we think it is testing.
• C) we can make causative statements about the relationship between the dependent and independent variables.
• D) the results of an experiment can be generalized across people, settings, times, treatments, and outcomes.

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