Which of the following refers to the ability to generalize a causal relationship across variations in persons, settings, treatments, and outcomes?
a. internal validity
b. statistical conclusion validity
c. external validity
d. construct validity
c
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Allen was recently traded to a new basketball team, and he is having a hard time remembering all the new plays because he keeps using the plays from his former team. Allen's problems illustrate the effects of
a. retroactive interference. b. state-dependent forgetting. c. proactive interference. d. memory reconstruction.
If you use the direct-access route while reading,
a. you can recognize a word directly from its component sounds. b. you directly access easy words through the visual route; you directly access difficult words through the auditory route. c. your teacher probably emphasized how a word is pronounced. d. you can recognize a word based on the visual stimulus of the letters in a word.
People are most successful at noticing an analogous relationship between problems if they focus on
a. surface features. b. structural features. c. operators. d. mental sets.
Having a restricted range of test scores means that the observed validity coefficient is likely to be ______.
A. higher B. lower C. unaffected D. unpredictable