(Scenario III) How Externally Valid Would You Say the Bobo

question 47

Multiple Choice

(Scenario III) How externally valid would you say the Bobo Doll Study is?

• A) very; laboratory studies are associated with high external validity
• B) not very; laboratory studies are associated with low external validity
• C) very; laboratory studies, when presented in an ecologically valid way, can increase external validity
• D) not very; laboratory studies, even when ecological valid, are inherently low in external validity

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