If a Study Is High in Internal Validity, Then the Researcher

question 195

Multiple Choice

If a study is high in internal validity, then the researcher can be fairly certain that changes in the ____ were indeed due to changes in the ____.

• A)construct validity of the cause; construct validity of the effect
• B)independent variable; dependent variable
• C)external variable; internal variable
• D)hypothesis; theory

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