Social Psychologists Will Often Run Pilot Studies That Are Very

question 6

Multiple Choice

Social psychologists will often run pilot studies that are very similar to actual experiments that they intend to run later but that differ in that participants are used as consultants to check that the experiment instructions are understandable, that the scenarios are believable, and so forth. Running a pilot study such as this particularly helps to increase the ________ of an experiment.

• A) external validity
• B) internal validity
• C) measurement validity
• D) statistical significance

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