A Psychologist First Conducted a Study on Helping Behavior with a Sample

question 194

Multiple Choice

A psychologist first conducted a study on helping behavior with a sample of college undergraduates. This psychologist then replicated the study using the same procedure with a different participant sample. If similar results were obtained with both samples, this experimenter has demonstrated __________.

• A) internal validity
• B) external validity
• C) population consistency
• D) chronological consistency

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Definitions:

Whole-language Approaches

Educational methods that focus on understanding and using language in its entirety rather than breaking it down into its components like phonics.

Phonetic-fluency Approaches

Phonetic-fluency approaches focus on the ease and speed with which phonetic elements of speech are processed and how this influences language learning and comprehension.

Eyewitness Memory

The recollection by individuals of events they have witnessed, important in the context of legal investigations, but subject to distortions and inaccuracies.

Confidence and Accuracy

The relationship between an individual's self-assurance in their abilities and the correctness of their outcomes.