What Is a Characteristic of the Laboratory Experiment

question 28

Multiple Choice

What is a characteristic of the laboratory experiment?

• A)low degree of internal validity
• B)high degree of external validity
• C)allows disentangling of the complexity of a social phenomenon that occurs in the natural world
• D)ideally suited for investigating applied questions

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Definitions:

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