Internal validity is:
a. the extent to which the results of an experiment can be attributed to the manipulation of the dependent variable, rather than to some confounding variable
b. the extent to which the results of an experiment can be attributed to the manipulation of the independent variable, rather than to some confounding variable.
c. the extent to which the results of an experiment can be generalized.
d. both b and c
b
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