External validity refers to the extent to which

a. research results can be generalized to other situations
b. the experimenter unintentionally communicates his or her expectations to the participants
c. historical events occurred that accompanied one or more of the experimental treatments
d. the observed relationship is a true cause-effect relationship


a

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