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Garrulous

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Dr. Malcolm is developing a new personality inventory. In his validation study, he ensures that his participants include individuals from every state, an equal number of men and women, individuals from all ethnic and racial backgrounds, and individuals from both rural and urban areas. Dr. Malcolm is trying to ensure that his study is ____.
 
  a. internally valid
 b. tightly controlled
  c. externally valid
 d. reliable

Question 2

In the Thom et al. (2000) study of the treatment of dental-phobic patients, if participants in the two experimental groups showed reduced anxiety from pretest to posttest, could the researchers conclude that the treatments were effective in reducing anxiety?
 
  a. Yes. Reduction in anxiety for the experimental groups would prove the effectiveness of the treatment.
 b. No. There are many possible reasons why patients would show reduced anxiety, so the only way to know if the cause was the treatments would be to use a control group that did not get a treatment.
  c. Yes, but only if one of the groups had a greater reduction in anxiety than the other.
 d. No. To conclude that the treatments were effective, they would need to see if the effects last for many years afterwards.



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Answer to Question 1

c

Answer to Question 2

b



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