Prior to Conducting the Current Study,Dr

question 18

Multiple Choice

Prior to conducting the current study,Dr.Lonsbary asked her research assistant to use the same mood manipulation with a sample of 30 college students to determine if people's moods really did change after listening to the music.Running this preliminary study helps establish which of the following?

• A)External validity
• B)Statistical validity
• C)Internal validity
• D)Construct validity

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Definitions:

Psychosexual Development

Freud's theory that childhood stages of development (oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital) affect an individual's adult personality.

Superego

Part of the Freudian psychoanalytic theory, representing the ethical component of personality that provides the moral standards by which the ego operates.

Ego

In psychoanalytic theory, the part of the personality that mediates between the demands of the id, superego, and reality.

Phallic

Pertains to the third stage in Freud's psychosexual development theory, focusing on the pleasure center around the genital area during the ages of 3 to 6 years.