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Mr.Thesaxman

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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

Question 2

The Deese, Roediger, & McDermott (DRM) paradigm is often used by cognitive psychologists for what reason?
 
  A) As a tool for experimental precision
  B) To create and study false memories
  C) To understand the mechanisms underlying memory processes
  D) All of these


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Fayaz00962

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Reply #1 on: Jun 19, 2018
Answer to Question 1

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Answer to Question 2

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Mr.Thesaxman

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Reply 2 on: Jun 19, 2018
:D TYSM

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YES! Correct, THANKS for helping me on my review

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