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Which of the following is the best way to increase the external validity of a study?
 
  a. Make sure it is low in psychological realism.
  b. Conduct the study in the laboratory instead of the field.
  c. Replicate the study with a different population of people in a different setting.
  d. Make sure you have at least two dependent variables.

Question 2

A researcher wants to see whether people are more likely to donate money to a charity when they receive a small gift from that charity. She sends an appeal for money from the charity to 1000 people.
 
  For half of the people (randomly chosen) the letter includes free address labels and for half it does not. The researcher then sees whether those who got the address labels donate more money. Which of the following is true about this study?
 
  a. It uses the correlational method.
  b. The independent variable is whether people got address labels and the dependent variable is how much money they donate.
  c. The independent variable is how much money people donate and the dependent variable is whether they got address labels.
  d. The study is low in internal validity because the people who got the address labels may differ in other ways from the people who did not.



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fdliggud

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Answer to Question 1

Answer: C

Answer to Question 2

Answer: B




c0205847

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Reply 2 on: Jun 22, 2018
Excellent


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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

 

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