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Collmarie

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According to your text, what is probably the most commonly cited disadvantage of using laboratory experiments to learn about human behavior?
 
  a. because they tend to be done in highly controlled settings, their results may not be generalizable to the real world
  b. with their mechanistic approach to human behavior, they ignore the participants' thoughts and emotions
  c. operational definitions reduce the abstract concept to a trivial level, making broad interpretations difficult at best
  d. because they tend to use other species, the results are usually irrelevant to human behavior

Question 2

In verifying data quality of existing statistics Mr. Marsh discovers that the definition of work injury varies across different agencies and time. This is an example of
 
  A) validity. B) reliability.
  C) topic knowledge. D) ecological fallacy.


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epscape

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Reply #1 on: Jul 13, 2018
Answer to Question 1

A

Answer to Question 2

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Collmarie

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Reply 2 on: Jul 13, 2018
YES! Correct, THANKS for helping me on my review

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Great answer, keep it coming :)

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