Melanie Is Conducting a Laboratory Experiment That She Hopes Will

question 19

Multiple Choice

Melanie is conducting a laboratory experiment that she hopes will support her theory that false memories are fairly easy to create.She asks college students to memorize a list of words and then complete an interference task.She finds that a significant number of participants report remembering words they were not asked to memorize.Which type of validity does her study most likely lack?

• A)construct validity
• B)theoretical validity
• C)internal validity
• D)external validity

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