Author Question: Professor X wants to make sure his study of gifted youngsters will get published, but he's worried ... (Read 83 times)

imanialler · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

Professor X wants to make sure his study of gifted youngsters will get published, but he's worried that his findings could have been caused by something other than the independent variable, which was a new teaching method he introduced.

He is concerned with the ________________ of his experiment.

a. probability level
b. external validity
c. replication
d. internal validity

Question 2

The basic dilemma of the social psychologist is that

a. it is hard to teach social psychology to students because most people believe strongly in personality.
b. there is a trade-off between internal and external validity in most experiments.
c. it is nearly impossible to use a random selection of the population in laboratory experiments.
d. almost all social behavior is influenced by the culture in which people grew up.