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Elliot and Niesta (2008) tested the hypothesis that men would find a woman more attractive when she was surrounded by a red background than when she was surrounded by other colors. In their first study the researchers compared a woman in front of a red background and a woman in front of a white background. The possibility that in this study the white background was brighter than the red background represents which of the following?
 
  a. A secondary variable.
  b. An alternative explanation.
  c. A threat to construction validity.
  d. A threat to external validity.

Question 2

Which of the following types of validity is threatened when self presentation occurs?
 
  a. Construct validity
  b. Statistical conclusion validity
  c. Internal validity
  d. External validity



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Answer to Question 1

b

Answer to Question 2

c




cdr_15

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Reply 2 on: Jun 19, 2018
Excellent


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