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jessicacav

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Dr. Wegner conducts a study to investigate the careers young adults are interested in pursuing using a sample of 100 Harvard honors students. What is the major problem with her sample?
 
  a. It lacks internal validity.
  b. It is unlikely that she can generalize across situations.
  c. It is difficult to say with certainty that she can generalize across people.
  d. It is too small in size to provide any meaningful information.

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Social psychologists seldom address the question of external validity by conducting their experiments on random samples of people from all over. All of the following are reasons for this except
 
  a. experiments capture general psychological processes experienced by all people.
  b. social psychologists are content with doing inexact science.
  c. it is expensive to get a random sample of people to participate in research.
  d. it is pragmatically difficult to get a random sample of people to participate in research.


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pallen55

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Reply #1 on: Jun 22, 2018
Answer to Question 1

Answer: C

Answer to Question 2

Answer: B


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Reply 2 on: Jun 22, 2018
YES! Correct, THANKS for helping me on my review

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Great answer, keep it coming :)

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